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The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

The Great Temptations of Leadership

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

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

4.8673 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Christian leadership, like few other vocations, exposes us to levels of temptation that require a depth of spirituality. Why? Jesus’ sheep are at stake. In this podcast Pete Scazzero speaks with Rich Villodas about the great temptations that confront each of us at the different seasons of leadership.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast.

0:03.1

My name is Rich Velotis.

0:04.0

I'm the lead pastor at New Life Fellowship Church here in Queens, New York City.

0:07.5

And I'm here, as always, with Pete.

0:09.3

Skazero.

0:09.8

Pete is the founder of New Life and the founder of emotionally healthy spirituality.

0:14.1

Today we're going to talk about the great temptations of leadership.

0:18.7

And Pete, there are many temptations, great temptations in leadership.

0:25.0

Before we get into some of those temptations, let me ask you, have you had to wrestle with

0:31.1

temptations, Pete's of in leadership? Is that, did it end? Did it ever end? Was there a season?

0:36.5

Did it stop?

0:41.9

The reason I got out of being lead pastor in New Life so I could give the temptations rich.

0:43.5

I want the rich to have the devils.

0:48.6

Oh, God. Passed them on for sure.

0:50.0

There's a lot of devils out of here.

0:51.6

I got different temptations now.

0:54.2

So, again, I was lead pastor at New Life for 26 years, and I could just tell you, I think

0:58.7

there are certain temptations that are unique to lead pastors and pastors on staffs that I don't

1:07.3

think ever leave you.

1:08.5

I think we could break their power, but I felt, I struggled

1:12.2

with the temptations that we're going to talk about just a few minutes, my entire tenure as

1:17.9

Lee Pastor and New Life Fellowship. And the minute, I, you know, Rich grabbed that mantle,

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