Why Skimming Over Your Losses Kills Discipleship

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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🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Many of us have come to believe that the Christian life is synonymous with constant happiness. We think we're on the right track if the trajectory of our lives is "up and to the right" - always improving, always leveling up.

But this way of thinking leaves little room for grief and sadness. When we experience real loss, we see it as an abnormal alien invasion, not as a divine invitation.

And yet, Jesus shows us that to welcome and hold sorrow before God is central to our leadership and discipleship.

In today's podcast episode, I share the importance of finding the treasure buried in grief and loss, and how we can train other leaders to do the same.

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 Gouzerro. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader
0:07.8	podcast. So glad to be with you. And today we're going to highlight another tool that I believe,
0:15.7	we believe, that needs to be in the toolbox of every leader in the discipling of others, especially other leaders,
0:24.0	are folks that you want to do high-level discipleship with. Now, today's title is called
0:29.2	Why Skimming Over Your Losses Kills Discipleship. Why Skimming Over Your Losses kills Discipleship. Actually, it kills a lot of things.
0:41.3	It kills community. If you skim over your losses because it kills vulnerability and openness
0:47.9	and love really impacts the kind of cultures we're building. It kills people growing into
0:53.4	spiritual maturity because you end up
0:55.0	having folks who are not fully human, but folks who are living what's often called an over-realized
1:01.5	eschatology. They're too spiritual and not earthly grounded. It also kills our missional effectiveness
1:09.3	in the world. Our ability to really enter the world as
1:14.9	compassionate men and women versus ended up people seeing us as judgmental. It really serves and
1:23.0	solves that because it grows and matures us into real compassionate people as we absorb our own losses.
1:30.2	So this emotionally healthy leader podcast actually has two thrusts to it.
1:34.3	One is, of course, as you listen, your formation as a leader, but it's also hoping to equip you
1:41.3	to unleash a disciple-making culture in your ministry. I see as the primary work
1:47.9	in scripture for every leader is to be discipling others, feeding sheep, helping folks mature
1:54.1	and be formed and grow in Christ. So today I'm going to share with you a 13-minute segment
2:00.4	once again from a level two training
2:03.6	that is found in our training vault.
2:06.5	And it's called, it's on coaching the grief and loss chart of someone.
2:10.6	It's actually a very practical tool to really serve your intentionality of mentoring another person or disciplining other people,
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