Hearing the Word vs. Reading the Word

So are you an Alex Scourby KJV only listener?
That could be a problem

Seriously, before the advent of the printing press most believers could only hear the word of God as presented by their pastor during fellowships.

Personally, I rarely spend time listening as you do but have been blessed each time I have.
I like listening in versions that I'm not so familiar with (NIV). When I'm done listening I run home and look up the verses I have questions about in my own favorite version.

Rob

 

Go for it!

I am a delivery druver for NAPA Auto Parts, and I, too, have little time to "sit and read" the Bible. My truck does not have a tape player, so I am limited to listening to Christian radio. But is I had a tape player, you better believe i would listen to the Bible on tape.

Bill

 

FYI there is a cdrom version (not kjv, however) that you can buy for cheap that you can do into mp3. Actually the audio tapes could be if you get the right software and hook a tape deck up to the puter, though it is rather slow going

 

I wouldn't have a problem if someone completely relied on audio for their scripture. As Deacon mentioned, until the advent of the printing press, hearing was the primary means of biblical transmission for a vast majority of Christians.

And then there is the idea of multiple intelligences. People learn better in different ways. Some are very strong reading learners. Others need to write things out. Others need to hear it. Some need to speak it aloud. Some learn well when it is presented in a picture/graph/diagram. Others learn well when it is presented in a musical or physical/tangible context. Others need to dialogue with someone about it.

Most of us learn well in a unique variety of these different intelligences.

My wife is in education and being forced to edit all of her essays in teacher's college a few things stuck through osmisis.

Multiple Intelligences

 

Alexander Scourby is a great reader. Very pleasant to listen to.Combine that with the subject matter and you have the best reading the best.

As a former school teacher, I was well aware that different kids learned in different ways. However, it is not possible for a teacher with 25-40 students to cater the classes to even those eight styles that Dr. Gardner classified. Even those eight classes are too broad. Each child is unique and to provide the best education possible it would be necessary to individualize each lesson for each student. Public education will always be forced to shoot for the happy medium and cover the most material in the most efficient manner. As a special education teacher I developed an Individual Education Plan (IEP) for each student. It turned out that SIX was the ideal number of students to work with. Eight was quite workable but, as administrators are fond of doing, it soon became 10 then 12 or 13 and these numbers are not feasible. Until society is willing to spend the big bucks necessary to trim that student/teacher ratio down quite a bit, education will be as inefficient as a doctor prescribing the same thing to the average of the entire waiting room.

 

Until then, it is still possible to incorporate a variety methods to cater to some of the more common learning methods. Yes, it isn't feasible in both time and finances to cater to every student's unique learning abilities, but a recognition of multiple intelligences moves us in that direction.

 

I've actually been thinking about this a lot recently. Not necessarily the same situation, but listening to the Bible vs. reading it. Every morning, I call my girlfriend up around 7am and we read a chapter of the Bible together over the phone since she lives a distance away and it's imposible for us to see each other every morning. And, usually I do the reading and she listens to me read to her. Hearing the words out loud makes it easier to remember what the story or chapter was about. When you read silently, the mind has a tendency to only absorb that which it chooses while, when you hear somethig, you tend to remember things that normally wouldn't even stick out, at least that is Auni and I's experience.

Keep listening to it. You're not violating any Scripture in doing that, although I would exhort you to read and study deeper to work the brain in a different way. Afterall, God gave us brains for a reason, that being He wants us to use them and be a thinking people.

 

I like to read at the same time while listening.

 

I've found books on CD to be invaluable for those long road trips.

 

This might help, Gregory: www.sermonaudio.com/search.asp?SpeakerOnly=true&currSection=sermonsspeaker&keyword=A.%5EW.%5ETozer

 

Wow I have the same CDs, there is nothing like on a beautiful day sitting on the bench during my meal or break and have the WORD of GOD being read to you!!!. My girlfriend went out and bought the CDs also after hearing me rave about them; they are a blessing.----------Sheila

 

Some of A.W.Tozer's sermons are available on cassette tape from Christian Publications in Camp Hill PA. I purchased one while up there a few months back. The quality is not too good - the recordings are very old - but they are cheap (about $2.00 each) - if you turn them up load you can hear them. I like the idea of the Bible on CD also - I am waiting for the entire HCSB to come out later this year (NT out now). Bruce

 

The ideal lesson , of course, would be to incorporate several modalities AT THE SAME TIME. To merely switch methods would take away from reaching the most students. For instance, I could have the students read a passage OR I could have someone read the passage OUT LOUD while the rest read silently OR I could have someone read out loud while the rest are reading silently AND have visual illustrations in the form of pictures, graphics, drawings, etc. AND when possible have something for them to touch. This takes up about the same time and doesn't take away from any methods but reinforces each student is a variety of ways.

 

The whole bible is out on tape in many forms. My Aunt went blind a few years ago, and uses the tapes to do her bible study. She says she loves it.

 

The ideal lesson , of course, would be to incorporate several modalities AT THE SAME TIME. To merely switch methods would take away from reaching the most students. For instance, I could have the students read a passage OR I could have someone read the passage OUT LOUD while the rest read silently OR I could have someone read out loud while the rest are reading silently AND have visual illustrations in the form of pictures, graphics, drawings, etc. AND when possible have something for them to touch. This takes up about the same time and doesn't take away from any methods but reinforces each student is a variety of ways. </font>[/QUOTE]Sounds good to me.

 

you can also download several different versions at audible.com (for a fee). I have them stored on a palm pilot, i can listen on headphones or plug it in to my car stereo.