Scripture Memory

I think Scripture memory is obviously a great practice, especially if one wants to share his/her faith. I was recently watching a teaching on "catechesis" back in the days of the Old Testament. Well, apparently, all the good Jewish kids would memorize the whole Torah. That is five books man! And not the short or most faced paced ones in my view - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. Even more crazy than that is the fact that those kids that wanted to be rabbis and were selected to begin training would memorize the whole Old Testament. I can't conceive doing that!!

So a big hat tip to the Jews of the Old Covenant for some serious "catechesis." So, I think some Christians are catching on to this whole Scripture memory stuff and starting their kids out real young. Check out the following video for a sample of young girl reciting Psalm 23 from memory.

Cute. She does a great job! Doesn't she? I doubt I could even say half those words when I was her age :)