‘What happens in youth groups where teenagers haven’t been through Godly Play is that the children have to learn how to speak the Christian language. They can tell you what a Bible story is, or they can tell you the conclusions that other people have made and taught them, but they can’t make any meaning for themselves – that’s a disaster when children reach adolescence. If they just have conclusions they are going to pitch those in with the other things. It’s just like doing science in that you have to learn how to do science before you can do science, so you have to learn how to speak Christian before you can think Christian.’
JEROME BERRYMAN, FOUNDER OF GODLY PLAY, SPEAKING TO PREMIER CHILDRENSWORK THIS MONTH. TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE VISIT PREMIERCHILDRENSWORK.COM
