How People Grow
by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
A theology of growth: that spiritual and psychological growth are the same process, involving grace, truth, time, relationship, suffering, discipline and obedience. It is their most theological book and useful for Christians who have been told that counseling and faith conflict.
Read it if…
you are a Christian who wants to reconcile psychological growth with your faith.
Skip it if…
you are not religious; the book is explicitly theological.
Three things you will actually use
- Grace and truth together produce growth.
- Growth happens in relationship, not alone.
- Suffering, rightly used, grows character.
Do this first
Identify which ingredient of growth you are missing: grace, truth, time or relationship.
Our verdict
Theological and integrative.
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