Emotionally Healthy Discipleship

As a church, our vision is for all to know new life in Jesus.

This kind of transformation begins with deep change from the inside out. 

Introducing Emotionally Healthy Discipleship

Over the last 21 years, Emotionally Healthy Discipleship has been a strategy for discipleship that is proven to change lives not just on the surface, but deep within. 

Perhaps you have felt like you were doing all the ‘right’ things as a Christian but not growing to be more like Jesus in the ways you’d hoped?

The same patterns of struggle come up again and again. However, the truth is that we cannot be spiritually mature while being emotionally immature.

A transformative discipleship pathway

Moving away from shallow discipleship to deep transformation.

The Emotionally Healthy Spirituality course to deeply change your relationship with God, and the Emotionally Healthy Relationships course to deeply change your relationships with others.

This core discipleship course will help you take a deep dive into your spiritual and emotional health and equip you with biblical principles, knowledge and tools to grow in your maturity.

Emotionally Healthy Discipleship is a course made up of two parts: 

Part 1

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

This powerful eight-week course will equip you with practical tools to really love people in difficult situations and help you mature into a follower of Jesus.
Term 1, 2025

Dates to be confirmed.
Sundays, Palmerston North location

In this course, you'll learn how to slow down your life and develop a personal relationship with Jesus.

Discover how to:

  • Confront the Crisis of Emotionally Unhealthy Spirituality

  • Know and Become Your Authentic Self 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

Eight weeks of Sunday evening sessions from 7-9pm at our Palmerston North location.

Cost

If you have completed Part 2, EHR: $25pp
This includes EHR Workbook and Day by Day Devotional.

If you haven’t completed Part 2, EHR:
$40pp / $65 per couple / $20 for students.
This includes all the resources needed to complete the course: Workbook, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality book and Day by Day devotional (total value of resources alone are over $80).

Before each course there will be an Orientation Meeting where you can come and learn more about the course and what it involves as well as ask questions. This will be happening on Sunday 4 February after the service at our Palmerston North location in Lounge 3.

This is important to help you understand the level of depth involved and to determine if taking the course is something you can commit to fully in your season right

Part 2

Emotionally Healthy Relationships

This powerful eight-week course will equip you with practical tools to really love people in difficult situations and help you mature into a follower of Jesus.

Term 1, 2025

Dates to be confirmed.
Sundays, Palmerston North location

Have you ever wondered why we recycle the same problems in the church year after year? Broken relationships, unresolved conflicts. inability to speak truth, false peace because we're concerned about being nice. Week after week we hear sermons about loving better but nothing changes. 

In the EH Relationships Course, everyone will learn eight practical relationship skills to develop mature, loving relationships with others such as:

  • Take Your Community Temperature Reading

  • Stop Mind Reading and Clarify Expectations

  • Genogram Your Family

  • Explore the Iceberg

  • Listen Incarnationally

  • Climb the Ladder of Integrity

  • Fight Cleanly

  • Develop a “Rule of Life” to Implement Emotionally Healthy Skills

Thousands of people all over the world who go through this course are changing lives and entire churches. This course will revolutionise the way you relate to God and the way you relate to people. Register for the course online and join us on a discipleship journey that actually changes lives!

If you have completed Part 1, EHS: $25pp
This includes EHR Workbook and Day by Day Devotional.

If you haven’t completed Part 1, EHS:
$40pp / $65 per couple / $20 for students.
This includes all the resources needed to complete the course: Workbook, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality book and Day by Day devotional (total value of resources alone are over $80).

Cost

FAQs about EHD

  • We recommend watching this video clip to get a better understanding of what Emotionally Healthy Discipleship is all about and how it began: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmOeEaDTK-E

  • Part 1: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

    8 weeks

    11 February—7 April (except for Easter weekend)

    Sundays 7-9pm at our Palmerston North location

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    Part 2: Emotionally Healthy Relationships

    8 weeks

    28 July—22 September (except Fathers Day)

    Sundays 7-9pm at our Palmerston North location

  • • There is a need for Table Leaders to be trained to properly understand their role

    • The small group format often resulted in very little transformation when not undertaken in an intentional way

    • Our desire is for people to partake in EHD with a high level of ownership rather than by obligation to the group

    • It’s important for Table Leaders to be actively growing in and living out the teaching before helping others to do the same

  • While we could cram it into 90 minutes, a longer session allows for a more relaxed experience and the building of community.

    We believe these two hours will be worth the investment of your time and energy for the level of input and discipleship you will receive.

  • You can start with either, but we recommend beginning with Emotionally Healthy Spirituality.

  • The Emotionally Healthy Discipleship Course is an introduction to a discipleship that deeply changes lives.

    We recommend getting connected into a Life Group and then looking into Night Classes, Life Keys, Mentoring, or serving on Team or as a Leader as next steps in your discipleship pathway.

  • Yes, this is a course we want to integrate into the life and foundation of our discipleship here at New Life and will continue to run Part 1 & 2 every year for the foreseeable future.

  • Yes. When you sign up for the course, you will receive the workbooks and resources needed.