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

podcast. And today is a part two of lessons for us in leadership today in the 21st century

from the desert fathers and mothers of the third to the fifth centuries. Now, I know this is a

stretch for some of you listening to this podcast and very much outside your comfort zone. Now, listen, I know this is a stretch for some of you listening to this podcast and very much outside

your comfort zone.

Now, listen, I know we've had over a million downloads the last 12 months.

So there's a diversity of leaders listening from over 100 countries to this podcast.

So you're coming, I know, from different cultural contexts in a global leadership community.

And so this is a stretch. I know for some. And I know I would have been offended by this topic

if I had heard about it early in my journey with Christ. But I want to invite you to be open.

I never expect to be talking about this, Desert Fathers and Mothers,

but I believe it's extremely important to creating a culture of deep transformation.

And let me invite you to pick up a free ebook on our website,

Emotionally Healthy.org, at Emotionallythith.org slash church history.

It's a little ebook that I wrote, it's very short. You can read it in less than an hour

that gives a sense of how the church has developed over these 2,000 years, and why it's important

to learn from different streams that are very different than our stream. And so pick it up

at motionallyaddle.org slash church history at our website.

And I think it will help fill out some of the blanks here.

Now, we're living in an age where the church globally is in a crisis of discipleship.

Actually, not just a crisis of discipleship.

That leads, of course, to a crisis of leadership development in the church.

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