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Life‐transforming congregations

Life‐transforming congregations Hundreds of studies have shown that people who are actively involved in faith communities have less cardiovascular disease, live significantly longer and enjoy higher levels of wellbeing. But which aspects impact lives in healthy ways? This paper identifies six ministry essentials with very strong links to emotional and spiritual wellbeing, based on surveying over 26,000 worshippers in 174 church congregations. We also list seven of the most important things that church communities can do to impact more lives. In addition, we discovered a very strong link between emotional aliveness in church communities and their life‐changing impact. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies Wiley

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
ISSN
1742-3341
eISSN
1556-9187
DOI
10.1002/aps.189
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Abstract

Hundreds of studies have shown that people who are actively involved in faith communities have less cardiovascular disease, live significantly longer and enjoy higher levels of wellbeing. But which aspects impact lives in healthy ways? This paper identifies six ministry essentials with very strong links to emotional and spiritual wellbeing, based on surveying over 26,000 worshippers in 174 church congregations. We also list seven of the most important things that church communities can do to impact more lives. In addition, we discovered a very strong link between emotional aliveness in church communities and their life‐changing impact. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic StudiesWiley

Published: Jan 1, 2009

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