Weakness: The Platform for Power Pt. 1

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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🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Most pastors and church leaders wrestle with this question: How do we measure success if not by numbers?

For the next two episodes, we’re diving into one of the most radical truths of the gospel—that God’s power is made perfect not in our strengths, but in our weaknesses. Paul lived this. He was battered, abandoned, mocked, even questioned as a true apostle. Yet, it was precisely in his weakness that God’s power was most fully displayed.

This isn’t just theological. It’s deeply personal. I’ve spent my whole life trying to overcome my weaknesses. But what if they were never obstacles to success—what if they were the very platform for God’s power?

Join me as we unpack this paradigm-shifting truth, straight from 2 Corinthians 10-13.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Guzaro, and I want to welcome you again to the emotionally healthy
0:10.6	leader podcast.
0:11.9	I'm just so excited about today.
0:14.7	Our topic is weakness, the platform for power.
0:19.3	It's actually a part one.
0:20.3	So again, the title today is weakness, the platform for power. It's actually a part one. So again, the title today is weakness,
0:22.8	the platform for power. And it's a part one. So I've been wrestling with this topic for decades
0:29.6	around the issue of how do we measure success as leaders in our churches and our ministries
0:37.4	if it's not by the numbers. And so I began wrestling
0:40.9	with this, of course, in my own life and pasturing. And I actually touched on it quite specifically
0:46.6	in the book Emotionally Healthy Discipleader in 2015, began to talk about success a bit and wrestle with it.
0:55.4	And then I hit it again in the second book for leaders called Emotionally Healthy Discipleship in
0:59.9	2021.
1:01.5	But it remained the number one question that I was asked by pastors and leaders around the world.
1:08.4	How do I measure success, Pete, if it's not by the numbers?
1:11.2	And so I've been thinking and wrestling with this for many years.
1:16.7	And I actually had a breakthrough in probably in, you know, a couple of years ago, two,
1:22.7	three years ago and of a new scorecard for success.
1:26.9	And actually did quite a bit of work on it and put it together.
1:29.5	And I realized, oh, man, like this is like revelatory.
1:34.7	But that this theme of how do we measure success is so big that I actually didn't want to release it.
1:42.2	I realized in an ebook or anything like that. I said, this is so large, I need a much
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