Hi, my name is Pete Scazzaro. I want to welcome you today to the emotionally healthy lead of podcast.

Great to be with you. Today's topic is six radical invitations in our polarized, politicized world.

This is part one. So let me invite you again to send any kind of comments or questions, any kind of feedback you can give back to me

around the podcast. Just go to Ask Pete at Emotionally Healthy.org. And it's just so helpful to me.

It's a real gift to have a sense of community as I'm doing this podcast with people like yourselves

all around the world.

I also want to invite you to this unique opportunity that's happening in just two,

three weeks from now on October 22nd.

It's an online event that we call the emotionally healthy leadership one-day live stream

experience.

And it's a chance for you and your team to get a fresh vision for discipleship

and leadership development around a four-hour workshop and really get into what does this

look like practically to do emotionally healthy discipleship in my church or community.

Just go to Emotionallyhealthy.org to register and get some more information.

Now, we are in the midst of a great polarization here in the United States.

It's very extreme and intense.

It's unprecedented, at least in my generation.

And we see this polarization happening actually around the world in many places as well.

But what's silly sad is that it's now entered into our churches

and where we've got folks split and polarized in the church, just like they are polarized

and unable to speak to each other outside the church. And that's a great tragedy. And everyone

is speaking as from God God whether they're on the

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