Well if eventually you do take on Romans you can join a group of us who are undertaking that endeavour! There are a few active members going through it at the moment and its been good to share the journey together. That was the first book that I undertook to learn in its entirety and I have been greatly blessed by it and so I've been trying to encourage others to do the same. Here's the link: http://learnscripture.net/groups/romans-learns/
Well done. Good start! I hope you stick around here for a while. I'm always interested in the other people who use this site to see what brings them here or what their approach/method is when choosing and learning verses and if they have any long term goals. Would you mind introducing yourself? I suppose I should introduce myself first. I've been on the site a little while (since last February) and find it encouraging and helpful to hear from other people. I remember starting out with modest ambitions to learn a few shorter passages (eg. the lord's prayer, ten commandments, a psalm or two, etc.). After I had learnt them though, I realized that it wasn't as hard as I thought and decided to take on larger passages. As have a few other users who have shared what they are learning.
Ambitious choice! I've been learning it for a few weeks now. I started with the one giant passage set like you but after a while I switched to passage sets of just one "letter" at a time (each 8 verses). It makes the review schedule a little easier to maintain and you have the "letters" as a prompt to associate with the start of each section. If you want to go down that path, solideogloria (another user who is also learning Psalm 119) has made the first few verse sets: http://learnscripture.net/choose/?creator=solideogloria If you have any tips for learning it feel free to share. We've been discussing how hard it is to learn: http://learnscripture.net/activity/79918/#comment-5491
That's probably a good number. If you do one a day eventually you'll have 15 verses a day to review which shouldn't take long each day if you can find a spare 15 minutes. If you've already done chapter 1 then you have 400 days worth of verses. A long term commitment but not a very time consuming one. And worth it!
Sure am. Gonna do it your way and work on it slowly while I work on something else (1 John - I've done something from Paul, James and Peter so I thought 1 John would be nice... and less of a long term commitment than the gospel of John) :)
Sure am. Gonna do it your way and work on it slowly while I work on something else (1 John - I've done something from Paul, James and Peter so I thought 1 John would be nice... and less of a long term commitment than the gospel of John) :)
It sounds good to me! By the way, I also like your way ... it's just that since I joined this site, I've used several strategies, and decided I finally had to settle on one for consistency's sake. Anyway, thanks for the link and chatting a bit :)
It's the hardest thing I've tried to learn. There is just no way to remember what comes next and after the boxes disappear its going to be a nightmare remembering whether a word is rule or law or statute or precept or commandment or way or word! It would probably be a lot easier if it was in Hebrew and every verse started with the same letter. Too bad it's lost in translation... Keep it up though. I'm doing 2 verses a day. I started with 4 a day but thought that might get a bit much. Frees up 2 verse for something else.
I know what you mean, 5ptcalvinist. I started learning in Feb and learnt about 1 response a day (maybe 2, I can't remember). I still can't remember some of them with word perfect accuracy but I remember the gist of them all. If it was a bible verse I would be more concerned with accuracy, but I figure I'll just let them come up for revision when they come up and if I fail terribly then the revision cycle will just reset and I'll get more practice and someday I'll remember them. Of course if you're on a schedule and need to learn it the only thing I can recommend is going into the "verse progress" page and going through the ones you struggle with on a daily basis.
I see you did what I was thinking of doing. I've started off learning the whole thing as one passage but now I'm thinking it will be easier if I learn them one "letter" at a time. How are you going with this?
Yeah, I've always thought like that too Robinshe. I keep this page bookmarked so I can figure out estimated completion times and things like that: http://www.deafmissions.com/tally/bkchptrvrs.html
Amazing goal, joosep. You have to have the right motive to do it like that. You don't get any of the good feelings of accomplishment when you finish a whole book (at least not until a long time in the future). Having said that it would be maddeningly slow getting through a section just to hear a whole story or parable or argument. But then again maybe it would encourage you to read more (without memorising)? Very interesting.
Hi MzCapree, welcome to the site. If you are looking for accountability you might try the "leaderboard group for everyone" (link: http://learnscripture.net/groups/leaderboard-group-for-everyone/ ). It probably has the most active members and I'm sure they can help.