Could you recite the books of the Bible?
I mean could you start in Genesis and recite the names of all 66 books?
My mom taught me all 66 books with divisions of Old and New Testaments as a child. I learned the divisions like the first 5 books of the Old Testament are the books of the Law. We also learned songs and rhymes with the lists to help us remember.
This has helped me tremendously over the years to not only win many sword drills (remember those?) but to find passages in the Bible quickly.
I think as a Christian it isn’t wrong to not know the books of the Bible and where to find them but I DO believe if we want to know God’s Word we should know where to find things.
Make sense?
So, with that in mind, I have started out this year to seriously teach Mellie the books of the Bible. She has a general knowledge of them and could probably list most of them in order but I have seen something else lacking in our Christian lives. People do not know how to spell them!
I loved Spelling class when I was in school. Okay, I loved all classes. But I learned to spell the books of the Bible at Melanie’s age so I think it is time she learns as well.
To help her, I found a free site to print spelling words. I am starting slowly with just the first five books of the Law. I’ll teach them to her in sections, too so she can have a better understanding of God’s Word.
Simple to fill in these words for her and then the site creates a free “Unscramble” page for her. As you can see, we are working on her penmanship as well.
Education is important within the bounds of Scripture and I can’t think of a better spelling lesson than learning to spell the books of the Bible.
Next up: teaching her to sing them!
