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Despite all the emphasis today on spiritual formation, church leaders rarely describe what spiritual maturity looks like. This book addresses how to grow disciples with relational depth—balanced people who are genuinely intimate with God, with their inner being, and with others.
The Emotionally Healthy Church opens with the story of one church’s revolutionary encounter with God ashe taught them a new way of approaching discipleship. Pete Scazzero, the pastor of New Life Fellowship, had been doing a great job of attracting broken and needy people. The church was growing at an impressive rate. He got people to attempt great things for God, developed many of them as leaders, and planted other new churches.
But despite the growth and excitement of this front-line ministry, something was deeply wrong. People kept burning out, leaders were exhausted, and Scazzero found his marriage in trouble and his intimacy with God drying up. He sought God, asking what was missing.
The turning point came when the pastor discovered a bridge between spiritual maturity and emotional maturity. He learned that Jesus’ followers need training in how to look beneath the iceberg tip of their lives, to break the power of their past on the present, to live in brokenness and vulnerability, to know their limits, to embrace loss and grief, and to model the incarnation of Jesus Christ.
This book provides the vision of a church community that is a safe place for developing mature members who begin to see deep lasting change in their lives. To build a healthy church, you need healthy leaders. The Emotionally Healthy Church gives you the tools to do that. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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an excellent book,
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This review is from: Emotionally Healthy Church (Hardcover)
I bought this book based on the title alone: I thought, If anyone out there is actually writing about the emotional health of churches & leaders, I want to hear what he has to say! I was not disappointed. The writer is brutally honest about his own failures in ministry and about the steps needed for leaders (& churches as a whole) to grow and mature in Christ. I appreciate that he recognizes the need for us to look inside ourselves rather than pooh-poohing that as navel-gazing. So many of us have no idea why we do what we do; we don't even know what it is we are doing sometimes!The many areas of emotional health the writer addresses are very interesting with good personal examples and suggestions. The spiritual inventory and the study guide questions would be very useful for personal and group work. 1 minor fault I saw: I thought the categories in the inventory(emotional child, adolescent, adult) could have been a bit more nuanced; it makes everything less than an "adult" look bad, whereas there is often a lot of growth going on and an emotional "teen" could actually be progressing quite well. But overall I would highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to grow spiritually and emotionally and to engage in more authentic, Christ-like ministry.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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emotional health breeds emotional health,
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This review is from: Emotionally Healthy Church (Hardcover)
The author pulls the stops on plastic, superficial religion. He strips himself of all pride and shows his true self to his readers-a vulnerable place to be. It is written from his 'real life' stories of how he basically was drowning in religion. Spiritual arrogance and pride are killers of the spiritual life. A Christian cannot go forward with Christ, nor serve Him, if within his heart lies 'works of the flesh. The author makes many points of this and doesn't just leave the reader there. He brings answers to the table that God gave him, and they worked for him and his broken marriage and church. This is a good book which could lead an individual and church to emotional health, if the reader prayerfully seeks the Holy Spirit, while reading it.
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