Product Information
Emotionally Healthy Discipleship
Moving from Shallow Christianity to Deep Transformation
Author / Peter Scazzero
ISBN / 9780310109518
Publisher / Zondervan
Publication Date / 2021
Series / Emotionally Healthy Spirituality (EHS)
Format / Paperback (Softcover)
Language / English
Pages / 288
Size / 21.6 x 14.1 x 1.5 cm
Weight / 380 g
Author Description
Peter Scazzero, along with his wife, Geri, are the founders of Emotionally Healthy Discipleship, a groundbreaking ministry that moves the church forward by slowing the church down, in oder to multiply deeply changed leaders and disciples. This journey began when Pete founded New Life Fellowship Church in Queens, New York, a large, multiracial, international church with more than seventy-three countries represented. Pete hosts the top ranked Emotionally Healthy Leader podcast and is the author of The Emotionally Healthy Leader and Emotionally Healthy Spirituality. Connect with Pete on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram @petescazzero.
Product Description
The global church is facing a discipleship crisis. Here is how we move forward.
Pastors and church leaders want to see lives changed by the gospel. They work tirelessly to care for people, initiate new ministries, preach creatively, and keep up with trends. Sadly, much of this effort does not result in deeply changed disciples.
Traditional discipleship strategies fail because they do not:
- Slow down people's lives so they can cultivate a deep, personal relationship with Jesus.
- Challenge the values of Western culture that have compromised the radical call to follow the crucified Jesus.
- Integrate sadness, loss, and vulnerability, leaving people defensive and easily triggered.
- Measure our spiritual maturity by how we are growing in our ability to love others.
In Emotionally Healthy Discipleship, bestselling author Pete Scazzero lays out how to create an emotionally healthy culture and multiply deeply-changed people in every aspect of church life―including leadership and team development, marriage and single ministry, small groups, preaching, worship, youth and children's ministry, administration, and outreach.
Complete with assessments and practical strategies, Emotionally Healthy Discipleship will help you move people to the beneath-the-surface discipleship that actually has the power to change the world.
From the back cover of the book
Our churches are stuck in a culture of shallow discipleship that severely undermines our impact of ministry. In Emotionally Healthy Discipleship, bestselling author Pete Scazzero combines three decades of wisdom and hard lessons learned from his own ministry journey to reverse this crisis and create a church culture that multiplies deeply changed disciples of Jesus.
Emotionally Healthy Discipleship offers a fresh biblical framework and practical vision for every aspect of church life. A ground-breaking book with penetrating insights that can transform today's church, this is the resource you need to think differently about discipleship and move from shallow Christianity to deep transformation.
Contents
The Difficult Journey to Move beyond Shallow Discipleship
Part 1: The Current State of Discipleship
1 / The Four Failures that Undermine Deep Discipleship
2 / The Emotionally Healthy Discipleship Personal Assessment
Part 2: The Seven Marks of Healthy Discipleship
3 / Be Before You Do
4 / Follow the Crucified, Not the Americanized, Jesus
5 / Embrace God's Gift of Limits
6 / Discover the Treasures Buried in Grief and Loss
7 / Make Love the Measure of Maturity
8 / Break the Power of the Past
9 / Lead Out of Weakness and Vulnerability
Implementing Emotionally Healthy Discipleship
Appendix A: Church Culture Revolution: A Six-Part Vision
Appendix B: Nicene Creed (with Notations)