The Spiritual Guidance of Children it shows how Matthew used

it shows how Matthew used Jesus’ stories and teachings to instruct and sustain his racially-mixed church to meet the severe challenges posed by Pharisaic opposition

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but more about the people—and creatures—of God going about their lives and attempting to love one another

and nighttime prayers that are the Daily Offices

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The Spiritual Guidance of Children it shows how Matthew usedThis book is an important history of traditions work in which Godly Play founder Jerome Berryman re visions religious education as spiritual guidance and traces the history of Montessori religious education through four generations. Berryman then highlights the development of the Godly Play approach to spiritual guidance within this context and concludes with thoughts about the fifth generation and the future of the tradition.