Break Free from the Deadly Temptation of Self-Promotion

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

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

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Leaders in a digital age face a unique pressure to always be in front.
Our social media platforms entice us to be seen, to be recognized, and to be liked.

Underneath this is a lie that to be hidden is to be forgotten, and to be unknown is to be unloved. This is why one of the greatest temptations leaders face is self-promotion.

Even Jesus faced this very temptation in the wilderness, yet rightly perceived it as a deadly trap from the evil one. Like Jesus, we must resist the many ways we are tempted to elevate our name and ministries into prominence.

Is all self-promotion really sinful?
Aren't we called to reach people?
How do we live and lead publicly without being robbed of joy and contentment?

I address these questions and more on today's podcast episode.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Cazaro.
0:05.6	I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader podcast.
0:08.8	Really good to be with you.
0:10.4	And our theme today is breaking free from the temptation of self-promotion.
0:16.2	Breaking free from the temptation of self-promotion.
0:19.8	It's a vast theme. Now, I think we're very aware
0:23.7	in the 21st century with all the new technologies of this temptation. I mean, with Instagram,
0:29.3	TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, you name it, emerging technologies that there's this
0:35.8	cent with my success is dependent on the extent of my influence,
0:41.5	how many people know me, how many followers I've got and how many invitations I get to speak
0:46.7	outside. And so it's the size of my influence, not just the size of my ministry. And then I'm looking,
0:53.0	and then really actually the amount of praise and affirmation I receive
0:56.0	and how that compares with other people.
0:57.6	And so it can be crushing this struggle of how do I not promote myself, but yet it seems
1:06.2	like everything is so dependent on it.
1:08.2	And so it's crushing because it just squeezes the life right out of us,
1:12.1	the spiritual life out of us. And it distracts us and clouds our vision from God's unique plan for us.
1:17.2	And it just kills joy, kills contentment as we're looking over our shoulders and comparing
1:22.1	ourselves. And our doing ends up getting out of whack. We end up saying yes to things that we really, God's not inviting us to say yes to.
1:30.0	And we violate limits.
1:31.4	We find ourselves in territory of doing things that it can feel like we're spiraling out of control.
1:36.4	And our inner life ends up suffering.
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