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Peter Scazzero
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The Emotionally Healthy Leader
Peter Scazzero's The Emotionally Healthy Leader begins with a provocative claim: the vast majority of Christian leaders are, in Scazzero's words, leading out of a state of emotional immaturity — and it is killing their churches, their families, and themselves. Forged out of twenty-six years leading New Life Fellowship, a large multiracial church in Queens, New York, Scazzero argues that the interior life of a leader is not a secondary concern to be addressed once the "real" work of leadership is done. It is the work. The book is structured around two movements: first, four foundational "being" areas that shape who we are as leaders (facing our shadow, leading out of our marriage or singleness, slowing down for loving union with Jesus, and practicing Sabbath delight); and second, four "doing" areas where that inner life intersects with the practical tasks of leadership (planning and decision-making, culture and team building, community and dual relationships, and endings and new beginnings). The thesis throughout is simple and searching: you cannot give what you do not possess.
View Discussion GuideEmotionally Healthy Spirituality
Peter Scazzero's Emotionally Healthy Spirituality begins with a confession most of us quietly recognize: it is entirely possible to be deeply involved in church, committed to the Bible, and actively serving God — and still be emotionally immature. Scazzero, a pastor who built a growing congregation in Queens, New York, discovered through a painful personal and marital crisis that his spiritual life had a gaping hole in it. He had been using ministry to run from himself, suppressing his anger and sadness in the name of Christian niceness, and leading others while his own soul was starving. His central thesis is both simple and radical: emotional health and contemplative spirituality are not optional add-ons to discipleship — they are its very foundation. You cannot be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature.
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