Emotionally Healthy Discipleship

Description

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.

**Winner of the 2022 ECPA Christian Book Award for Ministry Resources**

About the Author

Founder of Emotionally Healthy Discipleship—a global movement transforming how the church lives, leads, and brings impact to the world in the way of Jesus.

Peter Scazzero is a pastor, author, and global voice for a revolution in the way we lead and follow Jesus. Along with his wife, Geri, he founded Emotionally Healthy Discipleship, a groundbreaking ministry transforming the church through the integration of emotional health and a slowed-down spirituality with Jesus. What began over thirty years ago at New Life Fellowship Church in Queens, New York—where Pete served as senior pastor for twenty-six years—has grown into a worldwide movement touching pastors and leaders in more than twenty-one languages. His books have sold over three million copies, sparking what many describe as a new operating system for the global church. Pete hosts the top-ranked Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast and is the author of several bestselling books, including Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, The Emotionally Healthy Leader, and Emotionally Healthy Discipleship. He and Geri now serve as founders and ambassadors-at-large for Emotionally Healthy Discipleship.