Hi, my name is Pete Gazzara. I want to welcome you today to the emotionally healthy leader

podcast. Our title today is the most important work on the face of the earth. Now, leading

is incredibly challenging and difficult. It's complex, it's hard work. And actually, every one of us is a leader.

In other words, a leader is anyone who has influence, which is every single person. Even if you're

not leading, many of you are, you're leading a church or a ministry or organization, a church,

a nonprofit somewhere in the marketplace. But we're all leading family and friends.

We're influencing by our very being. And so God entrust people to our care, to feed, to

influence, to, or to give food to them, because God's entrusted them to us for a season.

So I want to take my comments today from a passage, a really important

passage in John chapter 21, which is when Jesus reinstates Peter. So let me read the passage,

and then I'll just go off on my comments on why I believe this gives us an insight into what

really is the most important work on the face of

the earth. It reads as follows. When they'd finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter,

Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? Yes, Lord, he said, you know that I love you. Jesus said,

feed my lambs. Again, Jesus said, Simon, son of John,

do you love me? He answered, yes, Lord, you know that I love you. Jesus said, take care of my sheep.

The third time he said to him, Simon, son of John, do you love me? Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time,

do you love me? And he said, Lord, you know all things. You know that I love you. And Jesus said,

feed my sheep. Then he goes on to say, very truly, I tell you, when you were younger, you dressed

yourself and went where you wanted.

But when you are old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.

Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God.

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