The emotionally healthy church: a strategy for discipleship that actually changes lives (Updated and expanded edition.)

"In this new edition of his Gold Medallion Award-winning book, Peter Scazzero shares powerful insights on how contemplative spirituality can help pastors and individual church member slow down-an integral key to spiritual and emotional health .

Sharing from the painful but liberating journey of his own church, Scazzero reveals exactly how the truth can and does make people free-not just superficially, but deep down.

This expanded edition of The Emotionally Healthy Church not only takes the six principles described in the original book further and deeper, but adds a crucial seventh principle. * Principle 1: Look Beneath the Surface * Principle 2: Break the Power of the Past * Principle 3: Live in Brokenness and Vulnerability * Principle 4: Receive the Gift of Limits * Principle 5: Embrace Grieving and Loss * Principle 6: Make Incarnation Your Model for Loving Well * Principle 7: Slow Down to Lead with Integrity "