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

podcast. I'm very excited to be with you again, and our theme today is monks in the pulpit,

rediscovering the ancient way of preaching and teaching. Just so excited about it. And if I was going to put where

today fits into our history is, we've had almost three decades now in emotionally healthy

discipleship. And we've moved through different phases. And in some ways, I feel like we're moving

into what I call the fifth phase. Now, we began with this revelation from God about emotional health, that emotional health and

spiritual maturity cannot be separated, that it's not possibly be spiritually mature while remaining

emotionally immature. And that a lack of emotional integration of those parts of scripture

into our discipleship, formation, and leadership has caused untold destruction over the centuries or, you know,

generations in our churches. So we began to do things like genogram and talk about limits and

things like skills to love well and grief and loss and integrating our emotions into our

discernment of God's will and knowing of ourselves that we might know God. And again, it was quite revolutionary.

The second phase was our movement into contemplative spirituality and learning about

silence and stillness and Sabbath and daily offices and a rule of life and began to integrate

that with emotional health into our leadership and into our discipleship and our churches.

Again, another major

phase and revolutionary. The third phase, I'll simply call leadership. And it really was exemplified

of the emotionally healthy leader book was all kind of put together there. That was the

application of emotional health and contemplative spirituality to the executive roles of leadership.

I'm referring to planning and

decision-making and culture and team-building and how we exercise power and set wise boundaries,

how we hire, fire, do boards, and then how we do endings and new beginnings and successions.

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