First15 Conversations: Pete Scazzero on Politics
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🗓️ 7 October 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Are you tired of the political drama and division? I certainly am, which is why I’m so excited to let you know about our latest First15 Conversation with pastor and best-selling author Pete Scazzero. Pete is the author of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, and has had a massive impact on my life and the ministry of First15. Today we continue our series on politics, talking with Pete about how we can walk in emotional and spiritual health throughout this entire political season.
We cover topics like…
-How to engage with people who are angry about politics
-How to manage the increased stress and anxiety we’re experiencing this year
-How to respond to the invitation God is extending us in this season
-How to truly abide in Jesus
It’s so important to stay grounded in our relationship with God during this political season, and it is our hope that this conversation will draw you closer to him and give you a renewed sense of peace.
To find out more about Pete's ministry, CLICK HERE
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the first of team podcast we're joined by pastor and author Pete Gazero. |
| 0:09.0 | Pete is the author of Emotionally Healthy spirituality and has had a massive impact on my life and |
| 0:15.8 | the Ministry of First 15. |
| 0:18.0 | He's joining us today as we continue our series on politics and how we can walk an emotional and spiritual health in the midst of this increasingly unstable political season. |
| 0:28.0 | Thanks for being a part of the conversation. Let's dive in. Well, Pete, thanks so much for making space in the midst of the craziness of today and |
| 0:45.8 | this week and this year to talk to Josh and me. |
| 0:49.2 | Followed you for a long time, your ministry has had a profound and personal impact on me and so it's kind of a dream |
| 0:55.3 | come true for me to get to have this conversation with you in a lot of ways and I know our audience |
| 0:59.6 | and those that are listening are going to love hearing this conversation as well. |
| 1:02.5 | So thanks so much for making space to talk to us. |
| 1:05.6 | Well, thank you, correct? |
| 1:06.8 | It's great to be with you. |
| 1:08.9 | Well, honestly, I've been deeply impacted, |
| 1:10.6 | as I mentioned from emotionally healthy spirituality. It really does shape a lot of what we do here at first 15 in terms of recognizing |
| 1:18.0 | how our emotional health and spiritual maturity are connected that God cares for us as a whole person. We are not a means to this end but we really are those that he cares about as holistically so |
| 1:29.3 | really grateful for the conversation and as we dive into the conversation this year has put I think a |
| 1:35.6 | major strain on so many of us in this area of emotional and spiritual health. |
| 1:40.9 | So before we jump into talking about the specific facet of that strain as it relates to this political season, how would you describe where we've been as a people in terms of emotional spiritual health, either you as an individual or a culture how do you kind of see that |
| 1:56.4 | And what lens are you looking at that through in terms of this season we're living in? |
| 2:00.3 | Yeah, I mean we're living through a season of great pressure. |
| 2:05.0 | I mean it started with COVID-19 in March and then it just continued to grow and snowball, you know, ended up in a significant economic |
| 2:18.4 | upheaval. |
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