Why Affliction is How God Develops True Spiritual Leaders

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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🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Affliction. It's a topic that nobody wants to talk about (including me).

But as it relates to TRUE LEADERSHIP, it is a costly mistake to avoid our afflictions. Why? Because this is how God matures us into spiritual mothers and fathers of the faith.

By "affliction," I'm referring to any kind of hurt, loss, betrayal, broken relationship, abandonment, or disorienting circumstance. While these are obviously things we don't want, they are also unavoidable.

Many of us run from our afflictions, seeing them as obstacles to our life and leadership. We distract, jump over, sidestep, and ignore. But Jesus called us to take up our cross and follow him. And when you're on the cross, you can't just jump off!

The good news is that God doesn't abandon us in our hardships. In fact – if we're willing to PAY ATTENTION, God uses our afflictions to develop us into the type of leaders worth following.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Gazzaro. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader
0:08.0	podcast. So good to be with you. I send you greetings here from my third floor office in Queens, New York.
0:15.2	Today's topic is why affliction is how God develops true spiritual leaders, or why affliction is the way that God develops true spiritual leaders.
0:26.3	Before I launch into this massive topic and such an important topic, I want to mention one announcement to you.
0:32.7	We are hosting a leadership one-day event on June 15th from 12 to 4 p.m. Eastern Time. Just go to
0:40.3	Emotionally Healthy.org slash one day, and you'll see some details about that. On that one day,
0:46.7	we've held it once before. It was a booming success, so that's why we're doing it once again.
0:51.4	I will be offering there and giving out the new leadership's core
0:56.2	Parch for Success document. It's in basically a little e-book that is just for this event and
1:02.4	giving seven internal and seven external markers to measure success in a way that's flowing
1:08.2	from the inside out more than just simply numbers, and I'll be growing
1:11.6	numerically up into the right.
1:13.6	And on that event, I'll be talking about that scorecard for success, as well as offering live
1:19.0	leadership coaching to contexts, to case studies.
1:23.1	So if you go on that website page at Emotionallyhealthy.org slash one day, you'll see when
1:29.0	you register, there's actually a case study way to send in a live situation you're wrestling
1:38.5	with and how does EH discipleship apply to that.
1:41.3	And then I will choose some of those and do it live right there in front of everybody
1:44.2	online. You can watch a little sample of that on our page. So let me encourage you to come. There's a
1:50.0	small cost to coming, but it's well worth your time. Bring yourself, your pastor, you're a pastor,
1:54.6	your leader, bring your team. It will be a fantastic event. Again, that's emotionally healthy.org
1:59.9	slash one day.
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