The Kind of Fighting Every Church Needs

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Pete Scazzero

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

As we approach 2024, there couldn't be a better time to revisit your discipleship strategy. Here's why... In North America, we are ramping up towards another election year. For most Americans, this has become a time of increased anxiety, stress, and relational volatility. As a culture, we lack the tools to have difficult conversations (especially political ones) without resorting to blaming, name-calling, avoiding, and "dirty fighting." Sadly, we do this in the church as well. For th...

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Scuzeiro.
0:04.9	I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader podcast.
0:08.2	I'm Pete.
0:09.2	I'm Jerry.
0:10.1	We're so glad you're here today.
0:11.5	Our theme is the kind of fighting every church needs.
0:16.2	The kind of fighting every church needs.
0:18.4	What a great title.
0:20.2	And if any day an age, the church needs it.
0:23.7	It is today. And so there's lots of dirty fighting that goes on in churches and in families and
0:30.9	in neighborhoods and on teams. Workplaces. So it's inside the church as well as outside the church.
0:36.3	And Jerry, why we just list some of the dirty fighting that goes on? Because we have a dirty fighting list in the workbook. I started making a list beyond what's even there in the workbook. You know, the kind of dirty fighting that goes on inside and outside the church that we all do. Things like lying, passive aggressive behavior.
0:54.1	Sarcasm.
0:55.6	I don't know that one was threatening.
0:57.4	Threatening.
0:58.2	Yelling.
0:59.1	Hitting in some cases.
1:00.9	Silent treatment.
1:02.1	Yeah.
1:02.4	Placading, giving in.
1:04.2	One doesn't really want to give in.
1:06.3	Using words like always, are you never?
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