The Spirituality That Heals: God's Provision for Your Soul's Deepest Need - Hardcover

Youssef, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1578565553 ISBN 13: 9781578565559

Publisher: WaterBrook Press, 2003

Synopsis

People hunger for the healing of their broken lives, but they remain confused about how to find true wholeness. As a result, many try to satisfy their hunger with counterfeit spirituality, completely missing the healing that God offers them.

In The Spirituality That Heals, pastor and Bible teacher Dr. Michael Youssef introduces readers to God’s provision for their deepest needs: the manifestation of the fruit of the Spirit. And he directs readers to the unique spiritual pursuit that has the power to restore them and their relationships.

The fruit of the Holy Spirit is not a list of behaviors that must be followed. Rather, it’s a divine pattern for wholeness in life that we willingly adopt. As readers let go of their self-directed life and submit to the Holy Spirit, they’ll find that their hurts, damaged relationships, memories, emotions, doubts, anger, and fear are healed.

The fruit of the Spirit–love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control–is the source and the definition of true healing, emotionally, spiritually, and relationally. It is the only spirituality that can heal us.

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About the Author

Michael Youssef, Ph.D., is founding rector of The Church of the Apostles, an evangelical Anglican congregation in Atlanta, and president of the international radio and television ministry Leading the Way with Dr. Michael Youssef. Born in Egypt, Dr. Youssef served in the pastoral ministry in the Anglican church in Australia for several years before moving to the United States, where he earned a master’s degree in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary and a doctorate in social anthropology from Emory University. He and his wife, Elizabeth, are the parents of four grown children.

From Publishers Weekly

In The Spirituality That Heals: God's Provision for Your Soul's Deepest Need, Michael Youssef discusses the characteristics of "true spirituality" as formulated according to evangelical Christian doctrines of sin and salvation, arguing that physical and spiritual healing is an outgrowth of salvation. While the book contains some fine moments, too much of it is taken up with shadow-boxing what Youssef calls "shadow spirituality," a popular humanistic understanding that he says is based in New Age teachings. Youssef does not cross the line into polemics, but his characterizations of "shadow spirituality" are sometimes misleading, as when he lumps ancient Eastern religions together with contemporary New Age beliefs. The writing style can also be overly forceful, ridden with rhetorical questions that are then answered by exclamatory declarations. Still, there are some strong thoughts here on the healing power of God's love and, intriguingly, God's joy.
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About this edition

• Publisher: WaterBrook Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1578565553
• ISBN 13: 9781578565559
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208