5 Ways to Avoid the Trap of False Power, Pt. 1
The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
4.8 • 673 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Too many pastors and leaders get caught in a subtle but deadly trap—chasing a form of power that looks impressive on the outside but leaves us spiritually hollow. It’s a trap Paul confronted head-on when facing the so-called “super-apostles” of his day. They flaunted their visions, eloquence, and achievements, yet Paul boldly declared that true power is found in weakness.
In this episode of The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast, we begin a two-part conversation on five ways to avoid the trap of false power. You’ll discover why weakness isn’t a liability in leadership—it’s a requirement.
If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing more than God asked of you—this episode is for you. The way forward isn’t about working harder or proving yourself. It’s about letting God’s power be made perfect in your weakness.
Listen now. And don’t forget to register for our upcoming webinar: How to Build an Emotionally Healthy Church from the Ground Up on March 12 at 4 PM ET.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Pete Cazero. I want to welcome you today to the emotionally healthy |
| 0:10.3 | leader podcast. Great to be with you. Our title today is five ways to avoid the trap of false |
| 0:18.7 | power. Five ways to avoid the trap of false power. Actually, I'm following up. |
| 0:24.5 | This is a natural, healthy follow-up of the last two podcasts on weakness, the platform for power out of 2. |
| 0:32.0 | Corinthians 10 to 13. Before I launch, I was this really fantastic topic as we flesh out really what Paul meant about true leadership, true power, what it means to radically redefine the whole way we understand ourselves and the nature of success and authority around avoiding false power. |
| 0:51.1 | So I want to make one brief announcement to you is we're doing now monthly podcast, Drew Hian |
| 0:57.0 | and myself, in order to kind of take people deeper into and understand emotionally healthy |
| 1:02.7 | church, what it means to build a culture out of that. |
| 1:05.1 | So we're actually doing a webinar for one hour on March 12th called How to Build an Emotionally |
| 1:10.5 | Healthy Church or Ministry |
| 1:12.4 | from the Ground Up. |
| 1:14.8 | And that's this coming, you know, March 12th at 4 p.m. |
| 1:18.3 | And you're going to see if you go to Emotionallyhealthy.org slash webinar, you'll see not just |
| 1:23.0 | that webinar, but a few that are coming each month on different themes around the same basic topic of how |
| 1:29.6 | do we actually build a ministry from the ground up around what we call emotional health. |
| 1:34.0 | Again, emotionally healthy.org slash webinar. |
| 1:37.6 | Check it out. |
| 1:39.2 | Now this podcast, again, is putting flesh on the scriptures we spent really on weakness as God's pathway to power |
| 1:46.1 | the last couple of podcasts. Now, Paul, again, a bit of context before I dive into really the five |
| 1:52.1 | traps that we need to avoid, but actually five core practices, we need to actually invite into our |
| 1:58.3 | lives or build into our lives to actually access this weakness power that |
| 2:02.8 | Paul is talking about so beautifully. |
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