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The emotionally healthy church : a strategy for discipleship that actually changes lives /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, ©2003Description: 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780310246541
  • 0310246547
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BV4597.3 .S32 2003
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Contents:
Part 1. Discipleship's missing link. As go the leaders, so goes the church ; Something is desperately wrong -- Part 2. Biblical basis for a new paradigm of discipleship. Discipleship's next frontier -- emotional health ; Inventory of spiritual/emotional maturity -- Part 3. Six principles of an emotionally healthy church. Principle 1 : look beneath the surface ; Principle 2 : break the power of the past ; Principle 3 : live in brokenness and vulnerability ; Principle 4 : receive the gift of limits ; Principle 5 : embrace grieving and loss ; Principle 6 : make incarnation your model for loving well -- Part 4. Where we go from here. Next steps into the new frontier of discipleship ; Discussion guide for restructuring discipleship
Summary: Discusses how to become a vessel of change within one's church and argues that one must become emotionally mature in order to achieve true spiritual maturity
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-221)

Part 1. Discipleship's missing link. As go the leaders, so goes the church ; Something is desperately wrong -- Part 2. Biblical basis for a new paradigm of discipleship. Discipleship's next frontier -- emotional health ; Inventory of spiritual/emotional maturity -- Part 3. Six principles of an emotionally healthy church. Principle 1 : look beneath the surface ; Principle 2 : break the power of the past ; Principle 3 : live in brokenness and vulnerability ; Principle 4 : receive the gift of limits ; Principle 5 : embrace grieving and loss ; Principle 6 : make incarnation your model for loving well -- Part 4. Where we go from here. Next steps into the new frontier of discipleship ; Discussion guide for restructuring discipleship

Discusses how to become a vessel of change within one's church and argues that one must become emotionally mature in order to achieve true spiritual maturity

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