The Outrageous Way Jesus Measures Spiritual Maturity

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

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Could you forgive someone if you knew they murdered your entire family?

It sounds far-fetched. But this is the question posed in As We Forgive - a documentary about the tragedies of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the stories of two women as they came face to face with the men who killed their families.

It provoked the question - Would I be capable of forgiving my enemies like this?

This is the center point of Jesus' most shocking, counterintuitive teaching - "Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you." (Matthew 5:44)

In saying this, Jesus set a new benchmark for love. He turned the new world order upside down. For Christians, the key distinguishing mark of spiritual maturity is the way we love our enemies.

In today's podcast, I walk through the 3 reasons our love often stops short of this measurement, and what we can do to deepen the way we love others.

(Hint, this is all a precursor for where we'll be headed over the next several weeks of the podcast!)

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Scazzaro. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader
0:07.5	podcast. Our theme today is the outrageous way Jesus measures spiritual maturity. I want to begin
0:15.3	today before I launch into my topic by inviting you if this applies to you you, to the school of emotionally healthy leadership.
0:22.7	It's set apart for pastors, leaders, denominational, and movement leaders. And I lead it myself
0:28.0	through Zoom. It's a two-semester spiritual formation journey of two semesters in eight weeks and an eight
0:33.4	weeks each. And a goal is that equip you to have an experience of the material we talk about
0:37.8	in this podcast and thus bring it to the people that you lead. You don't just read about it or listen
0:42.6	to it. You actually live it and are able to impart it to those around you. Now, our mission at
0:48.2	E.H. Discipleship is to radically renew the church by addressing the crisis of shallow discipleship and shallow leadership
0:56.1	formation by training a new generation of pastors and leaders.
0:59.7	In two things, monastic slowdown spirituality and emotional health for deep transformation
1:05.4	for the sake of Jesus' mission in the world.
1:08.0	So this course actually is meant to help slow you down to be with Jesus and
1:13.0	silence, stillness, scripture, practice Sabbath delight and rhythms. Apply genogram,
1:19.3	your family history, going back three to four generations on how it impacts your leadership
1:24.0	as you look at your vulnerabilities and they become not liabilities, but actually
1:28.1	gifts through which God's power might move.
1:30.6	You might be able to transform the leadership team that you lead in your ministry culture
1:34.8	by mastering core skills and build a deeply transformative discipleship leadership formation culture.
1:43.8	So again, we have a few spaces left.
1:46.6	We're going to begin in October. But again, it's for pastors and leaders hungry and eager to
1:51.6	grow. And again, you have to apply. So just go to emotionally healthy.org slash leadership school.
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