Hi, I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast.

Great to be with you.

And our theme today is Leadership Blind Spot number three, ignoring the treasures of the larger global church.

Ignoring the treasure of the larger global church.

And we began by the first Leadership Blind spot talking about we give away what we

don't possess, we just don't have time for that. Secondly, we talked about last week how we

disconnect emotions from our spirituality, our discipleship, our formation. And today, we're going to go

into ignoring the treasures of the larger global church. I love this. This topic is so

vast. I generally make a few notes before I begin speaking. Here I've got lots of notes. And so we're

going to ramble a bit. I'm going to talk about a bit how I got into this, but also a bit of

history and 10 top lessons from one of the greatest global church historians,

a friend of mine in the world today, Scott Tunkwist, and a couple of things I'm working on

right now out of church history and how it impacts leadership and discipleship.

So let me begin with a story that comes from a best-selling book called Educated,

written by Tara Westover.

She grew up in an isolated rural Idaho area with radical survivalist Mormon parents.

And she writes in her memoir all about her story and how her parents were opposed, for example, to public education. She didn't go to school until she was 17. Her parents don't want anything

to do with the government. And in this fundamentalist Mormon family, her father was fanatically

determined to keep her from all the brainwashing out there in the world

and kept them very isolated and she believed and he believed her father that the american

government and public schools were deliberately brainwashing children and so all she did was

study the bible and even when she began to move towards schooling, her father said to her,

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