Growing Older in the New Family of Jesus, Part 1

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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🗓️ 26 October 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In part 1 of this two-part series, Pete shares a biblical perspective on growing older and how this informs our understanding of "retirement" (really only a transition to the next phase of what God has for us), of work, and of how we lead people of all ages in our churches.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast.
0:03.0	My name is Pete Cazaro.
0:04.0	Great to be with you.
0:05.0	And today I want to do the first part of a two-part series called
0:09.0	Growing Older in the New Family of Jesus.
0:12.0	Growing older in the new family of Jesus.
0:15.0	And let me explain how I came into this.
0:17.0	I actually, as I was in my mid-50s and beginning the transition out of New Life
0:24.4	Fellowship was the lead pasture, I began to struggle with aging. And as I approached in particular
0:32.9	becoming 60, which I did about a year and three months ago, I really began to recognize that,
0:41.8	boy, this discipleship issue of growing older is a big one. So I began about three, four years ago,
0:48.3	doing a lot of reading on, to be mentored on growing older. And I was, I became very aware that I had negative scripts and the culture
0:58.3	had really impacted me, but I really wanted to get disciples. So I began to talk to older mentors,
1:02.8	began to read widely, and I learned a great deal. And it actually has been a wonderful journey.
1:09.3	And so recently, I knew new life fellowship i for the
1:11.8	first time offered a seminar on growing older in the new family of jesus to about 80 to 100
1:17.9	folks uh in a ministry at new life fellowship for folks over over 50 55 and it was so incredibly
1:25.5	well received that i was encouraged to preach it to all the younger people because they need to hear it as well.
1:32.0	And as one ex-police officer from New York City said to me, if I had known this when I was younger, it would have so transformed my perspective on life.
1:47.6	And especially he retired in his, I think his mid-40s,
1:53.0	early 40s. He goes, my last 10 years would have been so different if I had this perspective.
1:58.6	So what I want to do is give you a nice part one here to begin us, and then I'll finish it next week's podcast as a part two.
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