Emotionally Healthy Discipleship
Emotionally Healthy Discipleship is a path for growth in our emotional and spiritual health to help us mature as we follow the way of Jesus. It consists of two courses that will equip you in a discipleship model that will deeply change your life and foster practices in you that are essential for spiritual formation.
Course offered during the Winter/Spring
How well do your relationships reflect the love of God? When you consider your relationships (family members, parents, spouse, significant other, coworkers, and friends), how well do you resolve conflict in healthy ways? Speak assertively and communicate your needs clearly? Clarify your own values and respect those of others?
Jesus famously stated that loving God and loving others cannot be separated. The New Testament writers consistently point to love for others is the litmus test of love for God.
In the Emotionally Healthy Relationships course (EHR), we'll build on the foundational reality that it is not possible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature...which also means relationally immature. You’ll learn how to slow down your life and develop depth in your relationship with Jesus and others. Specifically you'll learn to...
Stop being sabotaged by wrong assumptions
Eliminate confusion by clarifying expectations
Discover what your family taught you about communication and conflict
Get beneath the surface of your emotional life
Deepen connection through "incarnational listening"
Disentangle your complex emotions and speak clearly
Master the art of clean fighting
Design a lifelong plan to grow in love for others
Winter/Spring session launches Wednesday, Jan 29th, 6:30-8:30pm. The course is 8 sessions & includes a $20 materials fee.
Course offered during the Fall
Do you desire to develop greater depth in your relationship with Jesus, but perhaps you don't know what else you can do or how to sustain lasting growth? At some point in the journey of faith everyone hits a wall, arrives at a place where they feel stuck and can't see a path forward. They confront the reality that...
You cannot be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature.
In the Emotionally Healthy Spirituality course (EHS), you’ll learn how to slow down your life and develop depth in your relationship with Jesus (note: not master how to do this during the course, but be introduced to a new way of life with God that is deeply transformative over time). Specifically you'll learn to...
Confront the crisis of emotionally unhealthy spirituality
Know and become who you were meant to be in Christ
Discover how your family of origin affects you today
Find your way through "walls" to grow into maturity
Enlarge your soul through embracing grief and loss
Integrate silence and sabbath to slow down for Jesus
Grow into an emotionally healthy adult
Design a lifelong plan to live in God's love
Stay tuned for more details on the next Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Course coming Fall 2025.
For more information, contact ehd@newstorychurch.life