Hi, my name is Pete Scuzaro.

I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader podcast.

So glad you're here.

The title of our podcast today is The Four Failures That Undermine Deep Discipleship.

The Four Failures That Undermine Deep Discipleship.

And actually this comes out of the first chapter

of the emotionally healthy discipleship book that is being released in one week, if you are listening

to this immediately when it's released. Now, my plan over the next several weeks is to do a series

on each of the chapters from the book

actually as a means to supplement your reading and hopefully discussion of the content of the book.

And we've got a set of great introduction videos and excellent discussion guide for teams that's available to you

for free. Just go to Emotionallyhealthy.org slash discipleship. That's emotionally healthy.org

slash discipleship. Now, I wrote this book in such a way that it is meant to be something that

you'll wrestle with, not simply personally, but for what you're

building as a leader, your ministry and your church. And so my process actually in writing this

book actually came out of a invitation that was given to me a few years ago by Zondervin,

our publisher. Now, many of you know, I wrote a book called The Emotionally Healthy Church in 2003.

That's 18 years ago. And one of the publishers says, Pete, you know, of all your books,

it's the one book that

actually is, was written at a particular moment in history, uh, that has a number of things that

are outdated in it. And I said, absolutely. Uh, and they made the point that I've written a lot of

e-books that we've made for free over the years, available to people. to people. And my thinking has matured over the last 18 years.

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