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The Invitation: Transforming the Heart through Desire Fulfilled
You are invited… to a change of heart, Jesus’ way! Transformation isn’t about being more disciplined or trying harder, but establishing a life-giving connection where Jesus fills your heart’s deepest desires for love, significance, belonging, freedom, security, and more. God’s change strategy isn’t focused on fixing your bad behavior, but on filling your heart with himself. Experiencing desire fulfilled changes what you want—and that makes change easy! In this practical, down-to-earth manual on heart change, master coach Tony Stoltzfus teaches you the revolutionary approach he’s used to walk thousands of Christian leaders through personal transformation. Here’s how it works. Behavior comes from the heart, and the heart is motivated by our desires--desires for things like for recognition, acceptance, significance, or joy. Most of crazy, twisted stuff we do that causes us so much pain is aimed at filling these unmet desire with things in this world. The surprising key to Jesus’ approach is your heart’s desires were meant to be filled in your relationship with God; not by things, but by Jesus himself (see James 4). Encounter Him touching your desire every day, and it will transform your behavior without even trying. Jesus’ way of change is better than you ever imagined!
The Invitation takes you on a journey to this realm of desire. We’ll start with the common Christian approach to change (disciplining outward behavior), and contrast it to what the New Testament says about changing from the inside out instead. Then you’ll learn about how the heart works, the different levels of the heart, the 16 deep desires, the Two Guardians of the heart (beliefs and emotional memories), and the steps to identifying beliefs and desires. The author is eminently for instance, he presents four tools you can use to encounter Jesus in your desires and six for changing beliefs, with clear steps and multiple examples for each. This book is a practical manual, not a theoretical it is filled with intimate stories of real people from all walks of life experiencing transformation through using these techniques to encounter Jesus in their deep desires.
As a special bonus, The Invitation also includes four hours of free, on-line video keyed to the text, featuring live, unrehearsed demos of how to coach the heart!
For coaches, counselors, pastors and anyone who wants to be more effective at helping facilitate personal change, The Invitation is a gold-mine of skills and tools, and an invaluable training resource. An entire suite of training aids are available to help you bring these techniques into your world, including DVDs, workshop and course outlines, a mobile app, and more. Professional training and certification are also offered through the Leadership MetaFormation Institute.
A Testimony from the Book”All my life I have heard that God loves me. And I believed it because I know that that is who He is. …but for the first time in my life, I saw God smile at me. I SAW HIM SMILING AT ME! And I have not been the same. Nothing about life looks as it did. It was like my life was a messy Rubik’s cube that I have spent decades trying to align. In a moment, every piece shifted into place. I am whole. Still on the journey, but whole.”
The Invitation takes you on a journey to this realm of desire. We’ll start with the common Christian approach to change (disciplining outward behavior), and contrast it to what the New Testament says about changing from the inside out instead. Then you’ll learn about how the heart works, the different levels of the heart, the 16 deep desires, the Two Guardians of the heart (beliefs and emotional memories), and the steps to identifying beliefs and desires. The author is eminently for instance, he presents four tools you can use to encounter Jesus in your desires and six for changing beliefs, with clear steps and multiple examples for each. This book is a practical manual, not a theoretical it is filled with intimate stories of real people from all walks of life experiencing transformation through using these techniques to encounter Jesus in their deep desires.
As a special bonus, The Invitation also includes four hours of free, on-line video keyed to the text, featuring live, unrehearsed demos of how to coach the heart!
For coaches, counselors, pastors and anyone who wants to be more effective at helping facilitate personal change, The Invitation is a gold-mine of skills and tools, and an invaluable training resource. An entire suite of training aids are available to help you bring these techniques into your world, including DVDs, workshop and course outlines, a mobile app, and more. Professional training and certification are also offered through the Leadership MetaFormation Institute.
A Testimony from the Book”All my life I have heard that God loves me. And I believed it because I know that that is who He is. …but for the first time in my life, I saw God smile at me. I SAW HIM SMILING AT ME! And I have not been the same. Nothing about life looks as it did. It was like my life was a messy Rubik’s cube that I have spent decades trying to align. In a moment, every piece shifted into place. I am whole. Still on the journey, but whole.”
256 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 11, 2016
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About the author
Tony Stoltzfus
50 books36 followersKnown for his wealth of practical tools and engaging writing style, Tony Stoltzfus has authored 21 books, launched several training organizations and is a founding figure in the Christian coaching. He's coached leaders worldwide through their most painful experiences in life for over 25 years.
Tony's full line of books and training aids is available at Leadership MetaFormation, a training organization that uses innovative, experiential learning methods to help you engage God from the heart.
Visit The Heaven Experience to enjoy his latest work, a journey to heaven that combines scripture and science for a breathtaking, mind-bending look at heaven and the incredibly good God behind it all.
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April 5, 2020
A transformational book.
I like the fact that it is so practical and applicable as you read. Very engaging. I would recommend it to everyone. I am learning to let Jesus Christ take over my life completely.
I like the fact that it is so practical and applicable as you read. Very engaging. I would recommend it to everyone. I am learning to let Jesus Christ take over my life completely.
March 26, 2023
Great resource!
A truly wonderful book with such wisdom! I experienced huge transformation while reading through this book. So thankful for it as a resource!
A truly wonderful book with such wisdom! I experienced huge transformation while reading through this book. So thankful for it as a resource!
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