Welcome to Emotionally Healthy Leader podcast. My name is Pete Scazzaro. Today's topic is

Disrupting False Peace as God's Path to True Peacemaking, Part 1. I spent my early years, from my family

growing up to early adult years, even into my 30s,

avoiding conflict, difficult conversations with people.

And actually, becoming a Christian gave me another veneer to pretend that everything was fine

because I could quote scriptures like, Blessed are the Pe peacemakers. But actually, that's one of the

most wrongly interpreted teachings of Jesus in the church today. And I learned that the hard way.

The way of true peace, actually, according to Jesus, will never come by pretending that what is wrong

is right. It actually requires disrupting false peace. You can't build

Jesus' kingdom on lies or fear. In fact, it's by taking a fresh look at the life and ministry

of Jesus that we learn what true peacemaking really is, as you'll hear about in this podcast.

So today I want to share with you a message from one of the

beatitudes in the Sermon of the Mount, from Jesus, Blessed of the peacemakers, for they will be called

Sons of God, Matthew 5, 9. And I promise you, it will shift your life as it did mine. And I trust

it will motivate you to get serious on the journey of formation and discipleship with Jesus that does integrate

emotional health and spiritual maturity. So each week we seek to offer you a free resource

for this journey. And this week, I want to make available to our personal assessment,

how emotionally healthy are you? And basically taking a look and find out, am I an emotional

infant child, teenager, or adult? It can be found at Emotionallyhealthy.org slash mature, literally

thousands and tens of thousands of people have taken around the world and have found it

hugely helpful as a diagnostic tool along the way in their journey.

So let me encourage you to do that at Emotionally Healthy.org slash mature.

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