Stop Fixing Your Church: Part 2

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

🗓️ 22 January 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Pete invites you into his personal journey of slowly breaking patterns and behaviors of overfunctioning. After considering the examples of Moses and Martha as classic overfunctioners, he lays out the three steps he took to stop overfunctioning.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Scazzaro. I want to welcome you to the emotionally healthy leader podcast.
0:07.0	Today's title is Stop Fixing Your Church Part 2. Last week I had you listen to quit over functioning out of a chapter from Jerry's books, an incredible chapter.
0:17.0	It's actually changed my whole life, and she lays a great foundation for what I want to say today in talking about leadership
0:25.3	and the challenge of overfunctioning in leadership.
0:30.5	And if you quit overfunctioning, and it involves raising your level of differentiation
0:37.9	and your family and your church and ministry
0:40.0	by quitting over functioning.
0:42.5	So this was a turning point in my leadership.
0:44.7	It actually happened in stages for me in 1996.
0:48.6	When Jerry quit over functioning in our marriage and our home,
0:52.6	she forced me to confront my underfunctioning in our marriage and our home, she forced me to confront my under functioning in those areas.
0:58.9	And then as I began to grow my own emotional maturity, my own differentiation level, I quit overfunctioning in the church I was pastoring.
1:05.7	I was doing the job of three to four people so that I wouldn't have to have hard conversations and make difficult
1:11.4	decisions. And so I grew in my ability to stopover functioning, as I understood it. It grew
1:18.3	in my understanding of it. And then 2006 was my most significant moment when I took seven years
1:26.4	to dive into the system of our church, the executive running of the church, and truly quit overfunctioning on a leadership level, it unleashed an earthquake into our system, into our church.
1:39.4	It was very powerful, it was very wonderful, but not everyone was happy when I changed the system. And the
1:46.6	emotionally healthy leader book, which many of you are familiar with, came out as a result of
1:51.3	that. And so I consider it, this journey of stop fixing my church or quit overfunctioning,
1:57.5	was key to me becoming a clear leader. Now, overfunctioning can be defined as doing for
2:06.2	others what they can and should do for themselves, doing for others what they can and should do for
2:10.5	themselves. So for most of us, overfunctioning is second nature. It's generally, it's in our bloodstream.
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