Welcome to the Emotionally Healthy Leader podcast. My name is Pete Scuzaro, and it's great to be with you today.

A couple weeks ago at our Emotionally Healthy Discipleship Summit, where we gathered leaders from 19 different countries, to talk about transforming the culture of churches and ministry around a discipleship that deeply changes people.

I gave a 20-minute talk on

Sabbath and 10 reasons Sabbath is core to discipleship and 10 reasons Sabbath is core to leadership.

And it got such a wide response that I was encouraged strongly to put it into a podcast. So here it is.

So a little bit of just context here is there's four core essentials to following Jesus or a discipleship that's going to deeply change a person's life so that they can disciple others.

One is slowing down to be with Jesus. Secondly, is going back to go forward. Thirdly is learning new skills to love like Jesus, and then finally

practicing Sabbath rhythms. So it's that last one we're going to talk about here today. And so again,

the goal is to not do a program. The call is to live a life that is so transformed by Jesus

that we're actually able to give it out to other people.

And so we've put it into a course with two parts to it.

It's not a plug-and-play course by any means.

It needs training.

But it's got to be lived by those who lead it.

And actually, our next training, if you're interested, if you've not come to a

training on how to lead the emotionally health of the discipleship course, our next one is on May 31st,

from one to four at Eastern Standard Time. And in a three-hour session, I model what it looks like

to bring this to a ministry or a church, how to launch it as a pilot,

and how to take your first steps.

And so, again, it needs training to actually do it because it's got to begin to be lived

and tasted because it's such a radical way to approach discipleship and a church.

And so I encourage you go to our our website Emotionally Healthy.org.

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