Rethinking What It Means to Be a Pastor or Leader in 2024

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

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

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🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Churches have all kinds of expectations of pastors and church leaders. There is a certain pressure that you must be able to cast vision, teach and preach, lead and inspire staff and volunteers, build teams, and keep ministry momentum in all areas.

The problem? Everything on this list is EXTERNAL. Very few churches and pastors see their INTERNAL life with God as part of their job description.

For this reason, we must become increasingly serious about leading from a deep inner life with God (not just gifting and skill).

On today's podcast, I will share some of what I've been sharing with many pastors. How we should design every part of our lives (rest, work, prayer, and relationships) around the love of God.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Gazzaro.
0:04.7	I want to welcome you today to the emotionally healthy leader podcast.
0:08.9	Our theme or title today is rethinking what it means to be a pastor or leader in 2024 and actually beyond.
0:19.4	And so actually today is going to have two halves to our podcast.
0:22.5	The first half, I'm going to provide a framework with that rethinking involves.
0:26.7	And then the second part of the podcast, I'm going to lay out a very specific pathway to get there.
0:34.6	So when many people think of being a pastor or leader in a church or ministry today,
0:39.3	we think of things like we're going to cast vision to know what's to do next, why it's important
0:44.9	and how to bring the resources to bear to make it happen. Leadership, we think of things like
0:48.9	building teams and whether it's a leadership team of volunteers or staff, we think of growing the ministry
0:56.3	in both finances and impact and influence.
1:01.1	We think of keeping up momentum, a sense that we're going somewhere for God or, you know,
1:06.0	creating a good brand or face or sense of who we are and who we're not.
1:12.0	We think of leadership or being a good pastor leader as making key decisions
1:15.6	or discernment to go forward here, to move the organization forward, making key
1:21.0	hires, et cetera.
1:22.6	It's, we think of things whether you're at children's work or worship or small groups
1:26.7	or discipleship formation,
1:29.1	justice, network, or whatever your area of expertise may be, we think of, okay, I'm going to
1:33.9	grow as a leader. I've got to get more skills, more experience, more resources to bear in what
1:39.2	I'm doing so I can have greater wisdom and insight. And so again, all these things I've mentioned are external, external to our lives.
1:48.0	And in fact, I think of all the years I spent in leadership conferences,
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