Thank you Janet. 1 Samuel 16:7 Matthew 6:1-7 God is concerned about the attitude and condition of the human heart. Of course, what we do is very important, but even more important is why we do what we do. Do we do "good" things to give an appearance of righteousness to others? Or do we do them because we truly love Him and want Him to be glorified and known by others? John 5:39-40 The Jews were searching the Scriptures, which is a very good thing. But yet they were not willing to come to Jesus, so that they might have life. These are, I guess I could say, the core issues that God has been speaking to me about, and as I write this I point the finger at myself. I very much need God's grace in this area. May we all love Him more and more and be motivated always by that love and our desire to bring glory to Him.
yes, I'm aware that he hasn't logged any activity since November. I wrote that earlier message in the hope, and with the prayer, the he would log in, read it and participate again.
yes, I agree, mrsmoo, I have been praying for him -- and will continue
Moviegoer, you wrote: "this post really only points out how little (we understand our) own process, how the site actually tabulates progress by percentage, how the first two work together" and "I can't explain why they dropped lower than the normal progression rates".
I've been at this site since 2015 (not continually ... I've just returned after a one year absence). I've gone through about three processes where many verses became fully learnt, and then I did a reset of some kind; I've gone through that three times since 2015. My point being, I too can't offer a clear and concise explanation for how it all works.
I mention this to invite ONFIRE247 to join this conversation. Are you reading it? Or if you are, please join in and *offer your analysis*. (I say this because in his past posts he clearly demonstrated that he had put a lot of thought into these questions, as to how this site works.)
Also I invite him to join this conversation because he used to be a very very active participant here, and now he is not. I'm writing this on the off-chance that he is or will be logged in and reading this at some point.
My words to him about a year ago were not appropriate -- too harsh, too direct -- and I apologized for that when I came back about a week ago, and I apologize again. I felt "convicted" as we used to say back in the 1970s when I first "got saved" (vocabulary Christians in the 1970s used, and some still use those terms today) For anyone who might not know, to "feel convicted" meant that we believed the Holy Spirit was speaking to us, that we had done something wrong, and now needed to make it right. I came back here, "feeling convicted" that I had done something wrong through my words. And so there are two purposes for my invitation to ONFIRE247, one to offer my apology to him, and two, because he would indeed have something valuable to add to this conversation!
Do you mean cancelling learning? When the learning is cancelled, the progress percentage does not change. So I didn't benefit from it. It's just that at the time, about a year ago, I wanted to shorten my review queue. But it wasn't the best idea for me personally with respect to those particular verses, because by not reviewing them for a year, now some I don't remember very well. I hope it's understandable.
But if you mean it's a great idea to shorten your review queue by cancelling learning on some verses, yes that might be a good idea for you, if you think so :)
It's because at some point, about a year ago, I had "cancelled learning" on many of my verses (but I didn't reset the scores back to zero) Now I'm in the process of re-adding those verses and as I review them, many stay at 100%, some move from 96 or 97 to 100, and others fall from 100% to some lower level if I can't remember them well enough :)
It's because at some point, about a year ago, I had "cancelled learning" on many of my verses (but I didn't reset the scores back to zero) Now I'm in the process of re-adding those verses and as I review them, many stay at 100%, some move from 96 or 97 to 100, and others fall from 100% to some lower level if I can't remember them well enough :)
Do you mean cancelling learning? When the learning is cancelled, the progress percentage does not change. So I didn't benefit from it. It's just that at the time, about a year ago, I wanted to shorten my review queue. But it wasn't the best idea for me personally with respect to those particular verses, because by not reviewing them for a year, now some I don't remember very well. I hope it's understandable.
But if you mean it's a great idea to shorten your review queue by cancelling learning on some verses, yes that might be a good idea for you, if you think so :)
thank you very much, rvfc2 and PeterP! I spent some time at Memverse, but ultimately it was just the right thing to do to come back here, and also, this site is certainly the best available for scripture memorisation online. (I'm not including the various phone apps since I know very little about them)
I've decided to log back in. I want to offer my sincerest apologies for the harshness of my words here from almost a year ago. I pray that Jesus will restore and heal anyone whom I have hurt.