Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

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My life was lived more out of reaction to what other people did or might do or what they thought or might think about me.” Emotional health and spiritual maturity are inseparable. It is not possible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature." Review of Scazzero's other book "The Emotionally Healthy Church", which touches on a lot of the same points as this book and how many of these ideas (included in "Emotionally Healthy Spirituality") are not biblical: https://9marks.org/review/emotionally...

The author further states that, "out of our contemplative time with God, we, too, are invited to be prayerfully present to people, revealing their beauty to themselves" pg 180 . Our job is not to reveal people's beauty to themselves, in fact what beauty can we claim? The Bible says that none are righteous, and I would say that there is no beauty in ourselves aside from what God has given us. I would not say that our job is to reveal people's beauty to themselves, rather it is to reveal that they are in fact sinners and need God's saving mercy and grace. If we can go around and reveal people's "beauty" to them, then how are they going to see that they need God? Second, Scazzero writes that we must “make love the measure of maturity.” “My focus and aim was to make disciples and to grow the church,” he writes. “But over time, it became difficult to distinguish between loving people for who they were versus using them for how they could contribute to the mission. Did I need people to come to faith in Jesus to build our church, or could I simply love them regardless of their decision to follow Jesus and serve in the ministry” (136)? I feel this is a hard question for all of us; if we are honest, we are prone to love people with an agenda that is self-serving. But the mark of maturity is to love people because they are people. Our love should come from a purity that desires others to flourish and become who God made them to be. Based on the new book, Emotionally Healthy Discipleship, this diagnostic tool was created to help individuals, teams and churches get a sense of whether their discipleship has touched the emotional components of their lives. The sad reality is that most of us will not go forward until the pain of staying where we are is unbearable. (21)Emotionally healthy spirituality is about having a healthy relationship with God, yourself, and others. Here are two sub-sections that explore the role of faith in emotional health: Christ and Emotional Health The way Pete S the co founder started was due to the effectiveness of Christianity. He exclaims that one of his followers told him I have been a first year Christian for 23 years not 23 years of Christianity. He seen many people were good religious people on the outside but did not go to further steps to ensure they followed and preached as disciples of god.

I understand the reasoning behind the phrase and agree that our purpose in life is to bring glory to God–and that we shouldn’t allow our emotions to rule our decision-making. Holiness is often produced during difficult times. The following are the top ten symptoms indicating if someone is suffering from a bad case of emotionally unhealthy spirituality: There are seven marks of deep transforming discipleship according to Scazzero. Naturally, he devotes the majority of his time in this book defining each mark while sharing some hands-on tools to help with each. He also is careful to develop Biblical and theological premises for each mark as well. Undoubtedly there could be much written here about each of these healthy discipleship traits, but I feel that there are a couple that stand out and need to be mentioned. I can't really say I was super entertained by this one, although I got a lot out of it. I definitely think I had some breakthroughs in reading it and learned some things about myself, but, I don't know. It's a book about feelings. Feelings are not my favorite thing to explore, which is probably why I need therapy in the first place.Imagine leading a church where every staff, leader, and volunteer knows how to communicate clearly. Imagine a culture, where everyone feels safe to tell the truth and has the skills needed to do so. Imagine the unity that is possible when every voice is heard. It is about being able to express your emotions in a healthy way and not suppressing them. The Power of the Past Not a few lessons they are meant to be run in large settings. They preach the interchangeable links between loving yourself and loving others.