Something is desperately wrong with most churches today. Many sincere followers of Christ who are passionate for God and his work are unaware of the crucial link between emotional health and spiritual maturity. They present themselves as spiritually mature but are stuck at a level of immaturity that current models of discipleship have not addressed. Discipleship that really transforms a church must integrate emotional health with spiritual maturity. The Emotionally Healthy Church offers a strategy for discipleship that accomplishes healthy living and actually changes lives. Included are hands-on tools, discussion questions, spotlights on key points, and story after story of people whose lives have been changed by the concepts in this book. Open the pages, and find out how your church can turn a new corner on the road to spiritual maturity.
Something is desperately wrong with most churches today. Many sincere followers of Christ who are passionate for God and his work are unaware of the crucial link between emotional health and spiritual maturity. They present themselves as spiritually mature but are stuck at a level of immaturity that current models of discipleship have not addressed. Discipleship that really transforms a church must integrate emotional health with spiritual maturity. The Emotionally Healthy Church, winner of the Gold Medallion Book Award, offers a strategy for discipleship that accomplishes healthy living and actually changes lives.
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Reviewed by Garry Rintoule (,Keilor Lodge, Victoria, Australia), February 16, 2009
I found the author refreshingly honest. Having walked the walk he was able to talk the talk. The Emotional/Spiritual Health Inventory gave me a real wake up call to where I stood in the 6 emotional components of discipleship. Thank you Peter Scazzero for being so vulnerable and lifting the lid and showing us how emotions play such a significant role in Christian/church maturity. Thoroughly recommended.
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Reviewed by Laurel (Queens, NYC, NY), May 23, 2003
I have been a member of the author's church, New Life Fellowship for many years. Because my husband and I were "there" to live through the experiences shared in this book, I thought reading it would be a fun experience, but I didn't think it would be a life changing experience for me. After all, I had been sitting under the teaching Pastor Pete shares in this book, experientially for many years now and it is woven (by the Holy Spirit) into the very fabric of our being a local church. But, much to my surprise (and yes, temporary horror) I found the Holy Spirit confronting me with issues in my life in which I used to walk in greater emotional (and thereby spiritual) maturity but due to some hard experiences in my walk, I had reverted to a more unhealthy practice in my life. God is SO good and so faithful to use this book to help me grow in yet one more area by revealing this fact to me through it. Now I am allowing the Holy Spirit to a more healthy practice in that area.
The best and most wonderful step of all those presented in this book is the last step, "loving well" because that is what Jesus did and what He call us to do as well. The important and most amazing thing is that none of us can get to that place of loving well until we work through the proceeding steps. These steps are laid out in a simple, honest and easily digestible fashion that anyone can appreciate and which pastors and church leaders should embrace. Pastor Pete's open and honest vulnerability before God and us, has caused him to love us well, and his example, like Christ's is a empartation to us to do the same.
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