The newly updated and expanded edition of the groundbreaking best seller The Emotionally Healthy Church features a fuller, deeper look at the six principles contained in the original and includes a crucial additional chapter: "Slow Down to Lead with Integrity". Our churches are in trouble, says Scazzero. They are filled with people who are:
- Unsure how to biblically integrate anger, sadness, and other emotions
- Defensive, incapable of revealing their weaknesses
- Threatened by or intolerant of different viewpoints
- Zealous about ministering at church but blind to their spouses' loneliness at home
- So involved in "serving" that they fail to take care of themselves
- Prone to withdraw from conflict rather than resolve it
Sharing from New Life Fellowship's painful but liberating journey, Scazzero reveals exactly how the truth can and does make you free - not just superficially but deep down. You'll acquire knowledge and tools that can help you and others:
- Look beneath the surface of problems
- Break the power of past wounds, failures, sins, and circumstances
- Live a life of brokenness and vulnerability
- Recognize and honor personal limitations and boundaries
- Embrace grief and loss
- Make incarnation your model to love others
- Slow down to lead with integrity
This new edition shares powerful insights on how contemplative spirituality can help you and your church slow down - an integral key to spiritual and emotional health.