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The Emotional Life of a Church
Change exposes what a church feels before it reveals what a church thinks. We dive into the emotional life of congregations—why two churches with the same theology can react in opposite ways—and how leaders can read reactivity, lower anxiety, and guide people toward gospel health. Drawing from family systems theory, we unpack complementarity, the pursuer‑withdrawer dance, and the pitfalls of fusion and cutoff. Then we connect those insights to pastoral practice: using the GRACE analysis to name grief and celebrate hope, taking a true morale pulse, and choosing presence over pressure when…
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