A review by theologiaviatorum
Saying Is Believing: The Necessity of Testimony in Adolescent Spiritual Development by Amanda Hontz Drury

informative

3.0

This books discusses the place of testimony in spiritual development. She argues that learning faith is like learning a language and none of us learns language merely by listening to it. We have to imitate the language. We have to talk back. Drury suggests that the same is true for learning the language of faith. If our children/teens are not actively involved in speaking about their faith they are more likely to lose it, just like we forget a foreign language if we have no opportunities to practice. It was a short work (167 pages) but contained good suggestions for how to incorporate testimony in a responsible manner.