Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: It’s Impossible to Be Spiritually Mature, while Remaining Emotionally Immature

by Peter Scazzero

Publisher:

Zondervan

, 2017

Overview

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

Plus, check out the full line of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality books dedicated to many different key areas of life. Workbooks, study guides, curriculum, and Spanish editions are also available.

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Key Features

• Outlines the signs of emotionally unhealthy spirituality
• Invites readers to have a deeper and wider relationship with Jesus Christ
• Provides seven biblical, reality-tested steps to become emotionally mature

Contents

• The Problem of Emotionally Unhealthy Spirituality
• Know Yourself That You May Know God
• Going Back in Order to Go Forward
• Journey through the Wall
• Enlarge Your Soul through Grief and Loss
• Discover the Rhythms of the Daily Office and Sabbath
• Grow into an Emotionally Mature Adult
• Go the Next Step to Develop a "Rule of Life"

Top Highlights

“But work for God that is not nourished by a deep interior life with God will eventually be contaminated by other things such as ego, power, needing approval of and from others, and buying into the wrong ideas of success and the mistaken belief that we can’t fail.” (Page 31)

“Pretending was safer than honesty and vulnerability” (Page 12)

“And all these people send the same message: that every human being on earth, regardless of their gifts and strengths, is weak, vulnerable, and dependent on God and others.” (Page 33)

“The reality, however, was that my discipleship and spirituality had addressed neither my insecurities nor my understanding of myself.” (Page 43)

“Out of a desire to bring true peace, Jesus disrupted the false peace all around him. He refused to spiritualize conflict avoidance.” (Page 32)

Product Details

• Title: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality: It's Impossible to Be Spiritually Mature, While Remaining Emotionally Immature
• Author: Peter Scazzero
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Print Publication Date: 2017
• Logos Release Date: 2016
• Pages: 240
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Spirituality; Spiritual formation; Christian life
• ISBNs: 9780310141556, 9780310085195, 9780310085201, 9780310348450, 9780310348498, 9781511370028, 0310348579, 0310085195, 0310085209, 0310348455, 0310348498, 1511370025, 9780310348573, 0310141559
• Resource ID: LLS:9780310348573
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-11-20T18:44:40Z

About Peter Scazzero

Peter Scazzero, along with his wife, Geri, founded Emotionally Healthy Discipleship, a groundbreaking ministry that moves the church forward by slowing the church down, in order to multiply deeply changed leaders and disciples. This journey began when Pete founded New Life Fellowship Church in Queens, New York, a large, multiracial church with more than seventy-three countries represented—where he served as senior pastor for twenty-six years.

Pete hosts the top ranked Emotionally Healthy Leader podcast and is the author of a number of bestselling books, including Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, The Emotionally Healthy Leader, and Emotionally Healthy Discipleship. He is also the author of The Emotionally Healthy Discipleship Course (Parts 1 and 2), which has transformed tens of thousands of lives around the world.