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In the Bible, "remembering" is more than mental recall. It involves emotion and volition as well as cognition. It not only touches the past; it also articulates with the present and the future, helping a person connect previously acquired wisdom to current and future decisions. .. Bruce Waltke says simply, "Remembrance equals participation."
Jeffrey Arthurs
Preaching as Reminding, 13 Remembrance is an understanding of the reality of the past in such a way that the events of the past become a force in the present, producing some activity of will or of body or both.
Ministers must learn to stir memory, not simply repeat threadbare platitudes. We must rouse that which is already present within the child of God: knowledge of our Father's love and majesty.Preaching as Reminding
one of the preacher's main callings is to make knowledge, values, and experience present once again. Ministers must serve as the Lord's remembrancers because things learned can be buried, lost, amputated, or corrupted.Preaching as Reminding, p6
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It is with a good Christian's memory as it is with a lamp; though the lamp be not full of oil, yet it hath so much oil as makes the lamp burn. Though thy memory be not full of Scripture, yet thou retain so much as makes thy love to God to burn.
The memory is diseased. The memory at first was like a golden cabinet in which divine truths were locked up safe, but now it is like a colander or leaking vessel which lets all that is good run out. The memory is like a searcer which sifts out the flour but keeps the bran. So the memory lets saving truths go and holds nothing but froth and vanity. Many a man can remember a story when he hath forgot his creed.
To counter the human propensity to edit memories, God has given us narrative and ceremony.Preaching as Reminding, p4
without memory, we are lost souls. That is why the Bible is replete with statements, stories, sermons, and ceremonies designed to stir memory. Even nature—the rainbow after the flood—serves as a reminder of God's faithfulness (Gen 9:13-17).Preaching as Reminding (p. 3)
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