Emotionally Healthy Discipleship

Moving from Shallow Christianity to Deep Transformation

De: Peter Scazzero

Narrado por: Peter Scazzero

The global church is facing a discipleship crisis. Here's how we move forward into transformative discipleship...

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 only address surface issues and do not go deep enough into the emotional health of individuals.

But transformative, emotionally healthy discipleship is a methods-based biblical theology that, when fully implemented, informs every area of a church, ministry, or organization. It is a discipleship structure built from the center that:

• Slows down our lives so we can cultivate a deep, personal relationship with Jesus.
• Challenges the values of Western culture that have compromised the radical call to follow the crucified Jesus.
• Integrates sadness, loss, and vulnerability, that, when left out, leave people defensive and easily triggered.
• Acknowledges God's gift of limits in our lives.
• Connects how our family and personal history influence our discipleship in the present.
• Measures our spiritual maturity by how we are growing in our ability to love others.

In Emotionally Healthy Discipleship, bestselling author Pete Scazzero takes leaders step-by-step through 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 and youth and children's ministry
• Preaching, worship, and administration
• 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.

**Graphics, assessments, and appendixes are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2021 Peter Scazzero (P)2021 Zondervan

Faith transforming

Incredible insights to the word of God and how to apply it to your life.

Heaven Sent

Our Father, thank you for using Your son Peter Scazzero and Emotionally Healthy Discipleship as a way to put Your back on the throne of our hearts and the church. This book given is a sermon, Bible Study and road map thank You. May our hearts receive this gift of love and encouragement. In Jesus Christ name amen

A Must Read

I wish I would have read this earlier in my ministry. I would have saved a lot of money on therapy. This is a must read for anyone in, or interested in, ministry.

just on Chapter 1 and this book is speaking

This book is practical and easy to follow. I am only on chapter 1 and am inspired to worship humble to seek God and motivate to put it to work.

The real life application

I really appreciate the psychological explanations and applications instead of a mystical magical explanation of things.

True Gospel Revival Template

As a pastor for 35+ years I have great hope of a new generation of leaders living and implementing true Gospel life change

New Work

With several books with similar titles by the author the concern was for just a recap of older material. Though some of that work is woven into this book it is fresh and new material to truly discuss discipleship in a biblical light.

Definitely recommend

I definitely recommend this book for the insights it has on how the Christian Church has often presented discipleship in a way that is contrary to healthy emotional maturity as well as how to foster emotional maturity and health. Three small complaints about the work:
1. So many lists. Lists with sublists. I appreciate how this can organize the material, but by the end I got a bit tired of another list.
2. Most of the examples given in the book follow the example of "This person started being more emotionally healthy, and as a result their ministry grew/marriage was saved/etc." At the end, the author acknowledges how, when he used to give talks at conferences, he only told the "successful" stories. It feels like he fell into that in this book as well. I would suspect there are also stories of the person who tried practicing emotionally healthier behavior and their marriage still fell apart or their ministry disbanded. Stories of the parishioner or staff member who refused to get on board. The stories in this book seem to unintentionally foster the idea that practicing emotionally healthy discipleship is a way to be successful according to a worldly definition of success.
3. He speaks a lot of ministry to people of different races and socioeconomic backgrounds. He speaks of working with people of differing political affiliations and of working with people of different religions. I support all of this. But with all this talk of appreciating people's diversity, he omits any reference to people of differing sexuality or gender identity, in a way that seems like it is more than just an accidental omission. I was a bit disappointed by this.

Exceptional

This life is not marked by a 5 star performance. This book gives guidance and direction to a persons soul. An award or book does not make its way to our Creator. The only way to everlasting life if through Jesus. This book keeps it simple in terms of understanding the Bible.

Very solid book!

We cannot be spiritually mature if we are not first emotionally mature. This books lays a wonderful foundation and provides some amazing tools and info for exactly that!