Hi, my name is Pete Scazzaro, and I want to welcome you to the emotionally healthy leader podcast.

Today's title is Brokenness, God's Strange, Pathway to Greatness.

It actually would be a part one of a two-part series.

Now, I spent the early years of my leadership preparing as best I could.

I accumulated as much of knowledge as I

could, skills, experiences as I could accumulate from many arenas. And my prayer was that basically

no person, no difficulty, no circumstance would break me. Nothing would paralyze me. I meditated

and memorized verses like the power that raised Jesus from the dead

lives inside of me, and greater is he that's in me than in the world.

And verses of David from Second Samuel, like, with your help, oh God, I can advance against a troop.

I could scale a wall.

And I was determined that I'd remain stable,

regardless of, again, what came my way. But that preparation left out one very important truth

about God's path to grow us into spiritual authority and leadership. And that was the place

of brokenness and weakness

and vulnerability. And so the result was when some storms did hit me, I just wasn't ready.

So let me begin this by this podcast by asking you five questions that measuring it on a scale

of one to five about where you are on the scale of doing with regards

to brokenness and weakness and vulnerability. So for example, I often admit when I'm wrong,

readily asking forgiveness from others. How would you rate yourself on a scale of one to five?

One being not very true, five being very true. Yeah, I ask forgiveness from others readily.

I can admit what I'm wrong. Another one would be, I'm able to speak freely about my weaknesses,

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