8 Practices of Emotionally Healthy Preaching and Teaching

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

Newlifefellowship, Religion & Spirituality, Leadership, Richvillodas, Petescazzero, Emotionallyhealthyspirituality, Christianity, Faith, Peterscazzero, Churchleaders, Spirituality, Emotionallyhealthy, Newyork, Pastor

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🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Eight years after planting New Life Fellowship Church in Queens, I was exhausted.

The pressure of preaching and teaching weekly messages, along with the rest of my

leadership responsibilities, left me depleted. Although our ministry was growing, I

often felt like I was gaining the world but losing my own soul.

What I lacked, and what so many of us still lack today, is a way to teach and preach for Jesus that properly flows out of a deep inner life with him.

What I discovered is that there is a way to engage in this weighty work of speaking for Jesus that is light and easy rather than heavy and hard, that strengthens rather than diminishes our relationship with him, and that is marked by joy and spaciousness rather than anxiety and pressure.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Gazzaro. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader
0:06.1	podcast. It's just great to be with you. Very excited about today's topic, which is the eight
0:12.0	practices of emotionally healthy preaching and teaching. Today's podcast is called the eight practices
0:18.4	of emotionally healthy preaching and teaching.
0:22.8	Now, when I first began to learn to preach and teach regularly, I struggled a great deal,
0:30.2	to find my own voice, to teach and preach in a way that came out of my unique personality
0:36.4	and temperament and calling and all of that and not
0:39.3	be copying other people.
0:41.6	And then, of course, once I got into this journey that we call emotionally discipleship,
0:46.3	it really freed me and set me on a journey of integrating what we call this operating
0:51.2	system, theologically, called emotional health, into preaching and teaching.
0:55.6	It was such so freeing.
0:57.3	And it really brought in, I would consider, missing elements of so much of what I was taught about preaching and teaching.
1:05.1	And so I found over the years that so many other people struggle with teaching and preaching for Jesus in a way that not just reflects themselves, but flows out of a deep inner life
1:15.3	with him.
1:16.7	And so today I want to talk to you about eight practices that I would say really apply the
1:25.3	riches of the theology underneath, emotionally of the discipleship into the way that we teach and preach.
1:32.3	Now, I'm talking about teaching and preaching in a variety of contexts.
1:34.3	It can be, of course, preaching sermons and churches on a regular basis.
1:37.3	It can be teaching classes for adults, for young adults, for children, for youth.
1:43.3	It could be seminars. It could be classes. It could
1:45.9	be family devotions. It could be for 10 minutes. It could be for 30 minutes. It could be for
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