Are you becoming a healthy disciple?
Discipleship is a life-long apprenticeship with the Master, Jesus Christ. He does not expect perfection, only heart and skill development. Becoming a Healthy Disciple outlines ten traits that will help you grow as a Christian.
| Stephen Macchia looks to John as a human example of a life lived close to Christ. He cites John's Gospel as well as the experiences of himself and others to bring the traits of discipleship into modern context and help you develop them in your own life. |
Stephen A. Macchia is founding president of Leadership Transformations, Inc., a ministry focusing on spiritual formation needs of leaders and the spiritual discernment processes of leadership teams in local church and parachurch ministry settings nationwide. He is the author of Becoming a Healthy Church, Becoming a Healthy Disciple, and Becoming a Healthy Church Workbook.
Endorsements
"This is a dangerous book. Reading it will be hazardous to your spiritual inertia. Macchia is out to build healthy churches by nurturing healthy disciples in down to earth ways. This book will transform you. You won't be the same after reading it. Macchia challenges you with gritty, realistic growth producing strategies for healthy disciples." --George K. Brushaber, president, Bethel College & Seminary
"This foundational and practical book on Christian discipleship will be useful both for the individual Christian and for congregations seeking renewal. I heartily recommend it." --Roberta Hestenes, International Minister, World Vision
"We will give our lives to someone or we will throw them away on nothing. For men and women who have given their lives to Jesus, Becoming a Healthy Disciple will give you workable leads on how to live with Jesus and for him." --Haddon Robinson, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
"With practical prescriptions and concise challenges, Steve Macchia delineates life-changing truths for day-to-day followers of Jesus Christ. Becoming a Healthy Disciple should come with a warning label: READERS BEWARE: THE TRUTHS IN THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE." --Paul Borthwick, author, speaker and leadership development consultant
"Sometimes the most profound truths are also the most basic. In Becoming a Healthy Disciple, Stephen Macchia takes us back to some basics that will profoundly impact our lives, and the life of the church, if we will embrace and practice them. Macchia reminds us that there is no seminar or toolkit for becoming a healthy church. Rather, healthy churches are the result of Christ followers who are committed to becoming healthy disciples. I pray that many people will read this book. More importantly though, I pray that all who read it will begin living its message from the inside out." --Dr. Samuel D. Rima, director, Doctor of Ministry program, Bethel Seminary
"Becoming a Healthy Disciple is a must read for all who wish to grow in their personal walk. Stephen Macchia unfolds the secrets to a vital Christian life and asks the direct and challenging questions that every individual needs to answer in their daily attempt to emulate Jesus. This book is a classic. I highly recommend it for anyone who is seeking a genuine Christian walk." --Ted Haggard, president, National Association of Evangelicals
"In Becoming a Healthy Disciple, Steve articulates a clear call for healthy disciple-making in the context of healthy churches. One senses Steve's heart not only for the Church but for the people who are the church and offers wise guidance for their growth in Christ." --Ruth Haley Barton, cofounder of The Transforming Center and author of Invitation to Solitude and Silence
"Becoming a Healthy Disciple is a perfect companion book to Steve Macchia's earlier work on Becoming a Healthy Church. To his previous ten traits of a healthy church is now added ten traits of a vital Christian. Such habits of the heart are all too frequently, but needlessly, missing when our Lord has provided more than enough supply for all who sense their spiritual hunger and spiritual bankruptcy and who wish to be genuine disciples of the Master. I commend this work for all thoughtful and genuine disciples of our Lord who want to mature and see the power of the living Lord working in and through them." --Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., president, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
"If I wanted to answer the biblical question, "How shall we then live?" it would be difficult to find a more comprehensive and well thought through response than that given by Steve Macchia in this excellent book. I want to please Jesus in my life. Like most of us I need to know how. At last--courtesy of Steve Macchia--I have an answer." --Dr. Clive Calver, president, World Relief
Date Posted: April 26th, 2004
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