Stop Fixing Your Church: Part 1

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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🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

When we cross the line into “fixing” our ministries instead of leading them forward to greener pastures, we are overfunctioning. Pete invites you to listen to Geri’s reading of the audio version of an outstanding chapter out of The Emotionally Healthy Woman called “Quit Overfunctioning.” By the time you finish, it will make sense why quitting overfunctioning is foundational to leadership.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Kizzerro, and I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader
0:07.3	podcast. It's great to be with you again, and today is part one of Stop Fixing Your Church.
0:14.0	Stop Fixing Your Church, Part One. And actually, there's a subtitle of this called Quit Over Functioning.
0:21.3	Now, as many of you know, I came into this journey that we call emotionally healthy discipleship
0:25.9	in my late 30s, very reluctantly through pain, and actually through the integrity and
0:33.1	leadership of my wife, Jerry. I was leading this apparently growing, thriving church here in New
0:39.3	York City, but things were not so exciting behind the scenes in the church, especially in senior
0:45.7	leadership, or in our marriage and home. So she'd been trying to get my attention for a number
0:51.1	of years, and then finally she quits, not the marriage, but she quits
0:55.6	participating in my pathology in the unhealthy system that I was leading. She realized she saw very
1:01.7	clearly there was issues in me, not simply circumstantially around me. And so she quit and started
1:09.1	attending another church, but as her quitting that precipitated the whole journey we know today is emotionally healthy
1:14.6	discipleship, in fact, if she had not quit, we would not be having this podcast, New Life
1:19.3	Fellowship Church would not be what it is today.
1:21.9	And this very large expansive ministry that we call E.H. discipleship would not be all around
1:26.8	the world. So what
1:28.3	it happened was, again, we were living or I was living, and our church was living, one thing on the
1:32.8	outside in public and another on the inside. And so Jerry quit. And so she quit a number of things.
1:41.1	And I'll list them here. And they come out of her book called The Emotionally
1:46.5	Healthy Woman. It's called Quit Being Afraid of What Other People Think. She stopped that. She quit lying.
1:51.2	She quit dying, dying, sadness, and fear. She had loss of that. She quit blaming other
1:56.6	people to responsibility for her life. She quit overfunctioning. She quit fa thinking and she quit living somebody else's life and she grabbed hold of her integrity.
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