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

podcast. So good to be with you. Our theme today is make love the measure of maturity, make love

the measure of spiritual maturity and really all maturity. Let me just say at the outset,

this series of podcast in which we're in right now are actually introductions to

each chapter of the emotionally healthy discipleship book that was released just recently.

Now, I wrote that book very much, not so you would skim through it or just get a cursory

understanding of the concepts, but actually my prayer and hope is that you will actually reflect on it, pray over it,

ponder it, let it read you, that it might actually be lived and form the basis of a biblical basis

of a new operating system for the church of doing discipleship and leadership development.

So there's a discussion guide with some introduction videos available for you,

free at Emotionallyhealthy.org slash discipleship.

Let me encourage you to go to that, emotionally healthy.org slash discipleship,

and to talk about what you're hearing here in these podcasts in the book, Emotionally Healthy

Discipleship. So we began with talking about four failures that undermine deep discipleship,

and then I began to just take one mark at a time of a culture that deeply transforms

lives and actually brings into the church and our

ministries the missing components of a serious discipleship that deeply changes people in the

context of mission and community. So we talked about be before you do, Father crucified,

not the Americanized Jesus, embracing

God's gift of limits, discovering the treasure is buried in grief and loss.

And today I want to talk to you about make love the measure of maturity.

And every chapter I feel like I want to say, this is the most important chapter, make love

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