More from Scazzero

November 14, 2007

Peter Scazzero’s book, The Emotionally Healthy Church, offers a new vision of discipleship— an approach that really changes people. Scazzero argues most churches and ministries separate emotional health, relational depth, and spiritual maturity.
Our understanding of spirituality often exults the spirit over the other critical aspects that make us human—those physical, social, intellectual and emotional aspects. [...]

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The Spiritual Formation of C.S. Lewis

October 12, 2007

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look to yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin and decay. But look to Christ and you find Him, [...]

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Letters to Malcolm

September 22, 2007

Now the disquieting thing is not simply that we skimp and begrudge the duty of prayer. The really disquieting thing is it should have to be numbered among duties at all. For we believe that we were created to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. And if the few, the very few, minutes we [...]

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The Celtic Way of Evangelism

September 4, 2007

Dr. George Hunter III recommends adopting a five-fold Celtic approach to preparing people for ministries of evangelism and discipleship. Rooted in early Irish Christianity, this approach may be more sophisticated and effective than anything being attempted in most churches and para-churches. Consider its implications for you and your team.
First, every person in early Irish monastic [...]

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Emotionally Mature? Ouch!

September 1, 2007

I’m finding myself on a needed journey toward more and more emotional maturity. Hopefully, I’m making some progress. Sadly, for a long time, I separated in my own mind emotional maturity from spiritual maturity.
It didn’t really make sense though–since I immediately equated a “tantrum” in someone else as not only emotional immaturity but also [...]

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Made To Stick

March 13, 2007

Leaders avoid the Curse of Knowledge.
The Curse of Knowledge is the tendency for leaders to think that having a great idea is enough. Leaders cursed by knowledge think that the communication part of that idea will come naturally. They don’t see the difficultly of getting a thought out of their own heads and [...]

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Amazing Grace: The Life of William Wilberforce

February 24, 2007

I just got back from the movie and am motivated to revisit Eric Metaxas’ biography of William Wilberforce, “Amazing Grace.” I try not to weep at crowded movies, but today was tough. I held it in for the most part–pushing back hard on the seat to stop the occasional slight tremble in [...]

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Surprised by Jesus

February 18, 2007

“Surprised by Jesus: His Agenda for Changing Everything in A.D. 30 And Today” (Tim Stafford)
Believing that Christology drives missiology which in turn drives ecclesiology, I’m continuing to pursue books about Jesus. Tim Stafford’s book was excellent–partly because it helped me continue to decipher N.T. Wright’s insights about Jesus and about Jesus’ Kingdom agenda. [...]

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More From Creps: Reverse Mentoring

January 2, 2007

In his book Off-Road Disciplines: Spiritual Adventures of Missional Leaders, Eric Creps argues for the discipline of reverse mentoring.
When you think of the word mentoring, what comes to mind? Normally, the word raises up scenes for example from The Karate Kid—Mr. Miyagi telling his novice Daniel to repeat this motion as he [...]

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Off-Road Disciplines

December 31, 2006

Earl Creps’ Off-Road Disciplines: Spiritual Adventures of Missional Leaders has a challenging chapter on Assessment: The Disciple of Missional Efficiency. Creps argues that an appropriate title could well be “What would Jesus measure?” Within Campus Crusade, we love to measure things. I often hold the teams I help lead for numbers [...]

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