In Becoming a Healthy Disciple, Macchia explores the ten traits of a healthy disciple, including a vital prayer life, evangelistic outreach, worship, servanthood, and stewardship. He applies to individual Christians the ten characteristics of a healthy church outlined in his previous book, Becoming a Healthy Church. Discipleship is a lifelong apprenticeship to Jesus Christ, the master teacher. Using the Book of John, Macchia looks to the beloved disciple as an example of a life lived close to Christ. Personal experiences as well as the experiences of others bring the traits of discipleship...

Becoming a Healthy Team is essential for building the kingdom. Steve Macchia has helped thousands of churches develop healthy ministries. Now he offers tried and tested principles and practices to help your leadership team do the same. He'll show you how to Trust, Empower, Assimilate, Manage, and Serve. That spells TEAMS and ultimately success. Without effective teams, ministries lose the ability to both serve the body of Christ and reach seekers. Filled with scriptural guideposts, Becoming a Healthy Team provides practical answers and pointed questions to keep your team on track and moving...

The Bible is filled with more than 50 different depictions of the heart, such as hardened, humble, deceitful and grateful. God's desire is to woo his followers to devote their whole heart to him in all aspects of their personal life and worship: loving God with "all" their heart...as well as with their soul, mind, and strength. However, there are many times when the heart is led astray from the purposes of God. In this book we look at the positive (life-giving) and negative (joy-stealing) conditions of the heart, from both a biblical and relational perspective. With practical applications...

Welcome to the delightful journey of discipleship Jesus invites us to say an enthusiastic "Yes " to his beckoning call: Come close, draw near, and follow me. This is exactly what John the Beloved Disciple said long ago and it's our invitation to intimacy today. Becoming a "beloved disciple" of Jesus is the focus of the 31 reflections contained in this devotional guide. Each reading covers one of the 10 traits of a healthy disciple (taken from Becoming A Healthy Disciple) or one of the 21 chapters of the Gospel of John which feature different portraits of Christ.