The Impact of a Christian School's Intentional "Listening Prayer" Practices on a First Grader's Understanding of and Relationship with God /by Debra R. Keeler.

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Abstract: The spiritual growth and prayer experiences of children are a central aspect of Christian schooling. A relatively small amount of scholarly work has examined children's spiritual growth through prayer. The examination of spiritual development through prayer experiences and the patterns that emerge in Christian schools hold promise in giving Christian schools' leaders insight into a child's understanding of and relationship with God. The current research conducted was an examination of the difference between a child's understanding of and relationship with God among six-year old children that engage in intentional "listening prayer" practices and those that do not in Christian schools. Differences were deter mined by interviewing 35 children in an experimental group that practices "listening prayers" and 35 children in a control group that do not, asking 11 questions on prayer. Significant differences did exist with experimental schools over control group schools in specific questions and subgroups regarding engagement in spontaneous prayers, what participants prayed about, God speaking to the participants, God speaking to participants in giving them a message for somebody else, answered prayer, and know God better because of prayer.
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The spiritual growth and prayer experiences of children are a central aspect of Christian schooling. A relatively small amount of scholarly work has examined children's spiritual growth through prayer. The examination of spiritual development through prayer experiences and the patterns that emerge in Christian schools hold promise in giving Christian schools' leaders insight into a child's understanding of and relationship with God. The current research conducted was an examination of the difference between a child's understanding of and relationship with God among six-year old children that engage in intentional "listening prayer" practices and those that do not in Christian schools. Differences were deter mined by interviewing 35 children in an experimental group that practices "listening prayers" and 35 children in a control group that do not, asking 11 questions on prayer. Significant differences did exist with experimental schools over control group schools in specific questions and subgroups regarding engagement in spontaneous prayers, what participants prayed about, God speaking to the participants, God speaking to participants in giving them a message for somebody else, answered prayer, and know God better because of prayer.

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