Book review number two: How People Grow: What the Bible Reveals About Personal Growth, by Cloud and Townsend. This is one of my all-time favorite books, it is a very long book but I think the audible version is shorter. The thesis of the book is that true Spiritual growth leads to deep transformation of the soul. Our spiritual life, where we learn about God, and our emotional, relational life, where we learn how to solve real life problems, are not two different things. All growth is spiritual growth! The functional issues like emotional and relational problems are spiritual issues, and they are addressed in the Bible. The spiritual and the practical are linked together. Addressing our emotional issues is an important application of the doctrines of the church. When we do not address our emotional and relational issues, we truncate our spiritual growth.
How People Grow
