Chapter 1: Recognizing Tip-of-the-Iceberg Spirituality. Something is desperately wrong.
Faith and the Pool. Scazzero shows his own emotional sickness with a story about trying too hard to be Christian. "Pretending was safer than honesty and vulnerability."
Church Leavers. Three kinds of people leave the church.
- Believers who aren't getting scripturally mature.
- People who remain in the church but are inactive.
- People who lose their faith.
The truth is that emotional health and spiritual maturity are inseparable.
Growing Up Emotionally Undeveloped. Almost every person bears some consequences from the fact that we are sinful people as a result of their families.
Coming to Faith in Christ. The story of his coming to Christ. In the first 17 years of being a Christian, there was essentially no mention of emotional health.
Trying Different Approaches to Discipleship. In an effort to correct what was bugging him, he tried multiple different foci. All were good; none of them worked completely.
Getting My Attention Through Pain. Three things brought him to open up to emotional healthy spirituality:
- Not experiencing the joy we are promised in Christ.
- Being angry and depressed.
- His wife was tired and confronted him.
Respecting Your Full Humanity. We have components of emotional, social, intellectual, spiritual and physical in our makeups. We tend to ignore the emotional component until we are forced to.
Living God's Way—a Beautiful Life.
Another Way.