Hi, my name is Pete Scuzero. I want to welcome you today the emotionally healthy leader

podcast and the title of today's podcast is emotionally healthy hiring, paid or volunteer.

This is part two. But before I begin, however, I just need to make a note.

I live here in Queens, New York, and I happen to live near two international airports, LaGuardia and Kennedy. And occasionally, they shift the flight paths of those planes to go right over my house.

So you're going to be hearing planes probably every five or six minutes here along the

podcast. So welcome to my little office here on the third floor of my house in Queens. Good to have

you here. Now, today's podcast on Emotionally of the Hiring Part 2 relates to building a team,

a volunteer team, or of course, making hires for employment. The principles

are similar. And it's perhaps the most difficult part of leading or pastoring a church or a non-profit

in the marketplace. Even the marketplace as a Christian is hiring people. And the reason is because

as we hire, it's actually revealing a large window into the depth

of our own maturity, our own interior lives, our being our depth, or our shallowness, of course,

of our spirituality and our relationship with Jesus, is really touching on profound issues.

And so the way we do hiring or build a team, the pace of it, the process

which we select and develop people or don't develop people, says a lot about our theology

and our trust in God. As we began to see last week in part one. Now listen, you can Google

articles about hiring or building teams. You can even take an MBA course on it.

You can read books on it.

But what I'm getting at here in emotionally healthy hiring is the application of a deep spirituality,

a transformative discipleship model that we call emotionally healthy discipleship,

really doing it out of a biblical

or a theological paradigm, things like be before you do and slow down for loving union with

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