Rediscover an Ancient Path to Disciplemaking

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

Newlifefellowship, Religion & Spirituality, Leadership, Richvillodas, Petescazzero, Emotionallyhealthyspirituality, Christianity, Faith, Peterscazzero, Churchleaders, Spirituality, Emotionallyhealthy, Newyork, Pastor

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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📖 FREE E-BOOK: “Ancient Disciplemaking” - Your quick start guide to understanding the last 2,000 years of church history. https://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/ancient

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In today’s episode, we’re stepping into the rich, untapped wisdom of church history. As modern Christian leaders, many of us unknowingly skip over a critical part of our spiritual heritage—believing God’s work jumped straight from the Book of Acts to the Reformation or Azusa Street. This way of thinking has left us with shallow discipleship and an anemic church.

It’s time to reclaim the “genogram” of the church. Together, we’ll explore the first 1,000 years of Christian history, learn from the four major branches of the global church, and discover how ancient practices like silence, stillness, and grief can transform the way we lead and disciple others.

We’ll also address blind spots in our evangelical tradition and the immense lessons we can glean from brothers and sisters across time and culture. The past isn’t just history—it’s alive, shaping us even today.

Ready to strengthen your leadership and rediscover an ancient path to disciple-making? Download our free eBook at emotionallyhealthy.org/ancient and take your next step toward a deeper, transformative faith.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Gazzaro on welcome you today to the emotionally healthy leader podcast.
0:13.4	It's very good to be with you.
0:15.3	Our theme today is ancient disciple making.
0:20.3	Why Embracing Church History makes strong leaders and disciples.
0:26.0	So actually, this is a new ebook we're releasing as well today.
0:30.8	And so I'm going to be making some comments from that ebook.
0:33.2	So I want to encourage you to download it.
0:34.6	It's free at Emotionally Healthy.org slash ancient. That's
0:39.2	Emotionallyhealthy.com slash ancient. And it's going to be a great resource for you. Of course,
0:45.9	I'll be adding beyond that ebook here as well. So this comes out of the fact that there's a major
0:51.5	gap in our churches today, in Western Christianity,
0:56.2	in how we understand the place of history. I mean, most folks think, okay, we book of acts
1:01.3	happened, God birthed the church, and then boom, before we know, we're in the 1900s, or we're
1:06.3	at the Reformation, but not a lot of understanding and knowledge of what's happened in between or the impact.
1:12.1	I talked to one pastor recently, and I asked him about his understanding of history, church history.
1:17.7	And he said, well, I had a course through online on church history.
1:22.4	And all I remember about it was there was a lot of fighting that went on in the 1500s during the Reformation. And I just thought
1:28.9	to myself, oh, Lord, because this faulty way of thinking about the ancient church over the last
1:37.6	2,000 years has done a lot of damage to our discipleship, our leadership formation, and the way
1:42.6	we train other people and do our mission in the world.
1:45.5	I like what William Faulkner said, the writer.
1:47.9	He said at best.
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