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Title: Emotionally Healthy Church, The by Peter Scazzero, Warren Bird ISBN: 0-310-24654-7 Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: emotional health breeds emotional health
Comment: The author pulls the stops on plastic, superficial religion. He strips himself of all pride and shows his true self to his readers-a vulnerable place to be. It is written from his 'real life' stories of how he basically was drowning in religion. Spiritual arrogance and pride are killers of the spiritual life. A Christian cannot go forward with Christ, nor serve Him, if within his heart lies 'works of the flesh. The author makes many points of this and doesn't just leave the reader there. He brings answers to the table that God gave him, and they worked for him and his broken marriage and church. This is a good book which could lead an individual and church to emotional health, if the reader prayerfully seeks the Holy Spirit, while reading it.
Rating: 4
Summary: This is a Good Book
Comment: PREMISE: Too many of our churches are led by people who claim spiritual maturity, but lack the ability to live godly lives because of their emotional immaturity. Now . . . do we know ahyone like that?!?
PLAN: We must (starting with the leaders) grow in emotional maturity. Here are the basic steps . . . 1) We must look below the surface of our lives, 2) We must come to grips with the scars from our past, 3) We must learn to be honest about our brokenness and become vulnerable. (I have noticed that those Christians I most admire have the ability to be open and honest about their lives.), 4) We must learn how to say, "No" and follow God rather than be pushed around by others, 5) We must not run from the pain of life, but rather embrace it and learn to grow through pain, 6) We must take the lessons we have learned and step into incarnational ministry as Jesus did.
POSITIVES: The author writes from personal experience. After many years of seemingly successful ministry as a pastor with a rapidly growing church plant and invitations to speak in a growing number of seminars across the country he finds himself with a crumbling marriage and a major church split when one of his staff defects and starts a new rival ministry. The pain of this experience woven through the pages of the book lend an air of credibility to the message.
PROBLEMS: There aren't many. The author's mix of counseling techniques and spiritual formation could cause the reader to raise his or her eyebrows, but I don't consider this much of a problem. I like to be challenged by what I read. The author waxes and wanes hot and cold in a place or two. I liked some chapters better than others, but that's normal for me. The only reason I didn't give this book 5 stars is because I am not certain right now if the book will cause a change in my life. I only give 5 stars to those works that change me.
PREDICTION: This book will become an important work among pastors and in church leadership training.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful and deeply needed book
Comment: I wish a book like this wasn't necessary. I wish the evangelical church was in fact the place the world looked toward for models of emotional strength and maturity. Unfortunately that is not the case. Scazerro's book is educational in both its format and in its content. He models what he recommends, sharing intimately and powerfully from his own life as a pastor and a husband. Ted Koppel will never interview Scazerro on Nightline, and yet what the author proposes is of far greater consequence than almost anything else that gets reported about the church in America. A wonderful and deeply needed book. Please read it.
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Title: Emerging Church, The by Dan Kimball, Rick Warren, Brian D. McLaren ISBN: 0310245648 Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: More Ready Than You Realize by Brian D. McLaren ISBN: 0310239648 Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul ISBN: 0785264310 Publisher: Nelson Books Pub. Date: 04 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Courageous Leadership by Bill Hybels ISBN: 031024823X Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ by Dallas Willard ISBN: 1576832961 Publisher: Navpress Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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