In Term 2 at Christ Church our whole church learns the same thing!
This term all our services including Kids and Youth are exploring the book of Colossians. This is a great opportunity for families and generations to grow, chat, pray and memorise the same part of the word together.
This year to assist families we have developed Colossians Collection Cards!
These cards are designed to help have faith conversations around what we are learning in Colossians. This could be done as you walk to your car after church, over a meal at the table, before bed one night or as you drive to school. We want to help families get deep in the Word together.
The cards also have a challenge each week to memorise a part of Colossians. What a valuable thing to know scripture off by heart from a young age?!
We hope these cards are a blessing as you invest in writing the Word on the hearts and minds of your household.
How It Works
Starting 4 May cards will be sent home weekly from Kids and Youth programs by leaders.
Basic Cards – Will be given to all kids and youth weekly. The cards will have discussion questions and a challenge to memorise a part of Colossians.
Exclusive Cards – If kids or youth learn the set verses for the week they will receive an exclusive card the following week. Parents of kids can retrieve the exclusive card to give to their child from their room at the card collectors desk. Youth can collect their exclusive card from their leaders after reciting the memory verse.
4 Tips for Memorising Scripture
‘Why, this man is a living Bible! Prick him anywhere—his blood is Bibline, the very essence of the Bible flows from him. He cannot speak without quoting a text, for his very soul is full of the Word of God.’ So spoke Charles Spurgeon of John Bunyan (author of Pilgrim’s Progress).
This week we start a memorisation challenge for the children of our church. But Bible memorisation isn’t just for the children, it’s for all of us. We want all our blood to flow Bibline. Psalm 119:11 says, 'I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.’
Each week of term 2 in Colossians, the children will receive a card with a devotional to do as a family. The cards also include some verses to memorise from Colossians. I think Colossians is the richest seam of Scripture worth memorising in the whole Bible. There is gold here that, if your children memorise it, will set them up for a life following Jesus. But it will also set us up as adults. The children will receive a special reward card if they memorise it. Let us as adults memorise it as its own reward.
Here are a few ideas for how you can memorise Scripture:
1. Each night after dinner, go around the table saying one word of the memory verse each. Keep looping around the table until you finish the verse. Mix up who starts.
2. Write it out. Studies show we learn much better by writing with pen and paper than by typing. If you write the memory passage out over and over, you will get it in your memory.
3. Sing it together. This is the most effective way to memorise things. The first week is Colossians 1:13-14. If you go to YouTube and search ‘Colossians 1:13-14 memory verse’ you will pull up a bunch of songs. I haven’t listened to all of them, but I can guarantee every single one of them is supremely lame. Own the lameness, have a laugh and then just use one. Even lame songs worm a way into your memory. Then search for the next verses on YouTube in week 2. You could let your kids find the lamest one as an extra competition .
4. If you're keen to memorise the whole book, I've found the Bible Memory app helpful for large chunks of Scripture. You'll have to pay $15 to download the version of the Bible you want (we use the NIV at church), but it's worth the money to treasure Scripture up in your heart!
I’m praying this term that the message of Christ will dwell among us richly (Colossians 3:16) as we memorise the book of Colossians together.
– Gerard
