I want to welcome everyone today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast.

My name is Pete Scizarro.

Great to be with you.

Today is a part of a series and the final part of a series called Six Marks of a Church Culture that deeply changes lives.

And this comes out of a simple e-book I put together called Six Marks of a Church Culture that

deeply changes lives, and I want to invite you to pick it up on our website.

It kind of summarizes each of the parts very quickly with a bit of an assessment and a few

questions for you to ask to you and your team. Just go to Emotionallyhealthy.org

slash church culture. That's Emotionallyhealthy.org slash church culture. That's Emotionallyhealthy.org

slash church culture, and you can pick that up and use it with your team. But let me review a bit here

as we launch into part six. So we as leaders, we want to be the culture. We want to embody the

culture that we're seeking to form. And actually, our

presence is what helps create it. And so our cultures as Christ followers that we're creating

is meant to be different than, for example, in my context, the United States culture, Western

culture. And actually, I'd say quite distinct from even what contemporary Christian culture looks like.

So I break it down to six qualities or six marks of what that looked like.

We started by part one talking about a slow down spirituality, that our being with Jesus

is actually sufficient to sustain our doing for him.

And then we talked about integrity and leadership that we actually embody and live what we

teach. And there's no pretending or lying that the degree to which we are being transformed in our

leadership is the degree to which we're able to give it to others. Third mark was beneath the surface

discipleship. We talked about things like family of origin, our cultures,

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