Church Tech: Why Have Technology in Ministry: Short- and Long-Term Memories PART 1
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Is brain research really in the Bible?
What does Scripture say about Forgetting and Remembering?
Biblical Repetition. Maybe you never considered that brain research concerning memory and repetition is in Scripture? Jesus, being Creator of the brain and ultimate Teacher, knew all about repetition affecting learning. Every important principle out of Jesus’ mouth begins with “Verily, verily,” or “Truly, truly,” which is purposeful repetition to focus attention. Usually He illustrated individual spiritual principles with 2 or more similar parables spoken in a row. Another form of repetition. Throughout the Bible, every Truth is established through two witnesses, and the laws of double reference are types of repetition.
Parable of the Sower. The four categories in the parable of the sower, upon close inspection, reveal short-term and long-term memories. The sower parable is found in three Gospels, not just one or two, which is a good indication to pay close attention to it because of the repetition. Within the parable, the first three categories of listeners are described as quickly forgetting what was heard (short-term memory). Events (cares of life) continuously bombarding the memory quickly displace the Word (sown seed). No fruit results from short-term memory. The fourth category is described as hearing and understanding (Matthew 13), hearing, receiving, and accepting (Mark 4), and hearing, keeping, and retaining (Luke 8). Keeping and retaining (key word: retention) are long-term memory. So according to Jesus’ parable, only long-term memory retention produces fruit (thirty, sixty, and hundred fold).
What About Remembering a Sermon? In all probability, sermon points heard only once never go any deeper than short-term memory, which means the hearer remains only within the first three sower categories. Pastor, your hour sermon, created from many hours of preparation, without multiple listening, will have your listeners remembering only 15 minutes after 6 hours have passed, from which no spiritual fruit results. Depressing, isn’t it? But you can change that! Multiple listening not only yields retention and fruit, but also renders the hearer’s “soil” more fertile for further sowing and reaping.
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Kingdom, Inc., now celebrating its 30th Anniversary, began with Johnny Berguson creating and selling a 14-cassette tape horse training course based on Biblical principles for raising children. With each course, he included a free cassette of his testimony of being saved and called to be an evangelist, and a short Gospel message. Not long after, he received feedback of more than a thousand people coming to Christ through that recording! The horse course sold well and he would often sell extra blank cassettes to churches at price reductions to same them money. Soon the churches started asking for duplicators and other equipment, and Kingdom, Inc. was born!
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Want Proof About Remembering and Forgetting? Next Sunday, Pastor, when you step into your pulpit, ask some questions about the previous Sunday’s sermon. Ask people to raise their hands if they remember one sermon point, then go to two points, then three, and then four. I’ll bet less than 5% of the initial number of hands are still raised for four points. Only when learning reaches long-term memory, does it begin to affect one’s heart and life.
Ministry Tip. We at Kingdom, Inc. have found the idea of multi
ple listening so valuable for God’s Kingdom that it has become one of our main ministry tips to train pastors. (Have you ever noticed that when you call, we give out many ministry tips?) Man y pastor or ministry leaders may ask, “If I record sermons for multiple listening, isn’t that promoting myself?” The short answer is, “It has nothing to do with the speaker, but everything to do with the Truth in the message. Multiple listening has the same effect as studying the same Scripture over and over!”
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