An August Project

During the month of August, we're focusing on memorizing these "one-verse statements of the Gospel." Normally our children memorize passages of Scripture at a time, but this will be a great and very doable project for that busy month when school-planning and summer fun are still going on, and it's a bit harder to stick to a schedule.

We're simply using the verses found here at Desiring God.

When you memorize a “gospel verse,” and keep it warm, you have hidden in your heart a divinely inspired and inerrant expression, in human language, of the very point of the whole Bible and all of history. You carry with you the sword of the Spirit in its strongest alloy. One-sentence encapsulations of the Bible’s central message strengthen our spiritual backbone and solidify our core, rooting us deep down in the bedrock of God’s heart and the nature of the world he made, and sending us into confident combat with unbelief, whether our own or someone’s 
else. “Gospel verses” are invaluable in both evangelism and discipleship.
~David Mathis

What's especially great about doing this in a family with many different ages is that everyone is memorizing the same verses, right down to the littlest ones.

With love,
Trisha