The Most Powerful Gift Leaders Can Give

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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🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

I was 19 when I came to Christ and started my training as a Christian leader.

As a young leader, I was taught many valuable things. But nobody told me about the most powerful gift leaders can bring to those they lead.

But I've learned (through my own failures) that the greatest gift leaders can actually give is becoming an "incarnational presence" – being DEEPLY PRESENT with people like Jesus.

In today's podcast episode, we look at the norm for most churches and leaders, but then we'll explore the beauty of what can happen in our church cultures when we learn to lead in this way.

I encourage you to watch our full training video online in our Leader's Training Vault. It's completely free and only takes one minute to register.

For now, you can listen to today's episode here...

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Gazzaro. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader
0:08.2	Podcast. Great to be with you. We are actually in the second of a unique three-part series to highlight three things we believe very much needs to be in the toolbox of every leader. In other words, every leader
0:22.5	needs to master in order to create deep change in their ministries. Now, today's title is,
0:29.1	the most powerful gift leaders can give. The most powerful gift leaders can give.
0:43.7	The primary work of each of us as leaders is regardless of the size of your influence or the type of organization or ministry or church that you're leading is to develop and to form and to mature
0:50.0	and to grow people. That is to make disciples into the image of Jesus. From the time I came to
0:57.0	Christ at the age of 19 and began leading our Christian fellowship on my campus, I began learning
1:02.6	how to lead. And it's led to me to get all sorts of training over the next 17 years. And by then,
1:10.0	I had planted a few churches actually here in New
1:13.6	York City and was pasturing the main one. And I was trained to give gifts in the name of Jesus.
1:19.6	I was trained to give the gift of scripture, the gift of preaching and teaching. I was trained to
1:26.2	give the gift of strategically forming communities in the name of preaching and teaching. I was trained to give the gift of strategically forming
1:29.3	communities in the name of Jesus. I was trained to give the gift of pastoring people and
1:35.9	helping people hear God's voice and developing their spiritual gifts. I even went to seminary
1:40.9	and did in-depth theological training. I learned Spanish. I moved to Central
1:46.1	America. I moved into Queens here in New York City. My focus was to learn new things and then to give
1:56.1	it away to other people as gifts and to expand the kingdom of God as quickly as possible or as best as possible
2:03.0	with my gifts and time and talent.
2:06.2	So I worked very hard.
2:08.9	But I neglected the greatest gift of all that I could have been giving people.
2:15.1	I didn't know what it was, first of all.
2:16.9	I hadn't seen it modeled for me.
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