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Book

Emotionally healthy spirituality : it's impossible to be spiritually mature, while remaining emotionally immature

Call Number

  • 248.4 S288 (CEN)

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Edition

Updated edition.

Publication Information

Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan, [2017]

Physical Description

231 pages : illustrations, charts ; 22 cm.

Summary

"A road map for discipleship with Jesus that is powerfully transformative. Peter Scazzero learned the hard way: you can't be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. Even though he was the pastor of a growing church, he did what most people do--avoid conflict in the name of Christianity; ignore his anger, sadness, and fear; use God to run from God; and live without boundaries. Eventually God awakened him to a biblical integration of emotional health and the spiritual practice of slowing down and quieting your life for to experience a firsthand relationship with Jesus. It created nothing short of a spiritual revolution in Scazzero, in his church, and now in thousands of other churches. In this updated edition, Scazzero shares new stories and principles as he outlines his journey and the signs of emotionally unhealthy spirituality. Then he provides seven biblical, reality-tested steps to become emotionally mature : Become your authentic self ; Break the power of the past ; Let go of power and control ; Surrender to your limits ; Stop to breathe by practicing rest and Sabbath ; Learn new skills to love well ; Love Christ above all else." --

Notes

Also issued as part of Emotionally healthy spirituality Part 1 expanded edition participant's pack, ISBN 9780310132127.

Contents

  • Introduction
  • 1. The problem of emotionally unhealthy spirituality
  • 2. Know yourself that you may know God
  • 3. Going back in order to go forward
  • 4. Journey through the wall
  • 5. Enlarge your soul through grief and loss
  • 6. Discover the rhythms of the daily office and sabbath
  • 7. Grow into an emotionally mature adult
  • 8. Go the next step to develop a "rule of life"
  • Appendix A: Excerpt from Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Day by Day
  • Appendix B: Defining emotional health and contemplative spirituality
  • Appendix C: The prayer of examen.

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