Emotionally Healthy Discipleship

Moving from Shallow Christianity to Deep Transformation

By: Peter Scazzero

Narrated by: Peter Scazzero

Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's summary

Pastors and church leaders want to see lives changed by the gospel. They work tirelessly to care for people, initiate new programs and ministries, preach new sermon series, and keep up with the latest trends. Sadly, it would seem that much of this effort is not resulting in deeply changed disciples.

Why? Because many churches are unknowingly operating from a shallow discipleship that allows people to recycle the same problems year after year. Churchgoers are increasingly passive with lives not distinct from the culture. People are not able to integrate anger and sadness. Many are defensive and incapable of revealing their own weaknesses. Church leaders desperately need a better way of teaching people what it means to follow Jesus in a transformative way.

In Emotionally Healthy Discipleship, best-selling author Pete Scazzero combines three decades of wisdom with hard lessons from his own ministry journey. He lays out what is required for church leaders to multiply deeply changed people who are growing in relationship with God, themselves, and others.

Scazzero begins with four beneath-the-surface, systemic gaps that undermine serious discipleship. He provides a clear vision for a church culture that deeply changes lives and then practically unpacks the seven biblical marks of emotionally healthy discipleship:

1. Learn to be before you do
2. Follow the crucified, not the Americanized, Jesus
3. Receive the gift of limits
4. Befriend suffering and loss
5. Break the power of the past
6. Practice the presence of people
7. Lead out of brokenness and vulnerability

Finally, he lays out practical steps for you to create an emotionally healthy discipleship culture 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

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

Faith transforming

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

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.

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.

A great follow up to earlier books

This latest book in the Emotionally Healthy series displayed the author's own growth and maturity. The incorporation of church history and Christian spirituality have been refreshing additions in his last two books.

I loved it

Being emotionally health = increased spiritual possibilities and connectedness.

I enjoyed the history lesson and how he connected his claims to scripture. Actually a lot of this relates to skills taught by therapist

Going deeper with Jesus

Learning to be vulnerable and accept me weaknesses, embrace grief and loss are huge. bought the series!