Brokenness: God's Strange Pathway to Greatness (Part 2)

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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🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The pressure to present an image of ourselves as strong and spiritually “together” hovers over most of us. We forget that not one of us is perfect and that we are all sinners. Pete explores Psalm 51 as a model for us, concluding with a few thoughts about our need to climb a ladder of humility if we are to lead well.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Cazaro. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader
0:05.9	podcast. And today's a part two on the theme of brokenness, God's strange pathway to greatness.
0:13.3	Brokenness, God's strange pathway to greatness. Actually, I can say brokenness, weakness,
0:16.7	vulnerability is God's strange pathway. It is really strange. I mean, it's a large theme in the life
0:23.3	of Jesus in his preaching and teaching in life. That is no pretending, you know, no image management.
0:30.9	You know, showy religion does not impress Jesus for it uses the good things of God for its own honor,
0:36.9	its own advancement.
0:38.3	And in places like Matthew 23, you know, Jesus just goes right after a life of pretending
0:43.5	or pretense with a desire that other people would notice and might think a certain way about us.
0:49.9	And so, you know, Lord, begin with me.
0:53.4	It's one of the things I believe that God very much in these days is cleansing his temple,
0:59.2	you know, globally of image management pretense.
1:04.5	And so this theme of brokenness and vulnerability and weakness really came, came, really, God brought it to my life in 1996
1:12.3	in my whole journey that, uh, emotionally healthy, uh, discipleship. And it was my own, it was a,
1:18.8	it was at the bottom, uh, God finally grabbing my attention that, I would say I just,
1:24.9	out of a place of such failure, uh, having to face and confront myself, broke and allowed
1:35.1	myself to be human and weak.
1:39.1	And instead of blaming my many problems in life on whether it be Jerry or the church or daughters or New York City or being a leader.
1:48.0	I finally looked at myself much more fully.
1:52.0	And it was painful.
1:56.0	It was liberating.
1:59.0	And I remember soon after this journey began, I just, in 96, going to my first
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