Week 3: Chapter 2 — Lead Out of Your Marriage or Singleness

1.Scazzero opens this chapter with the uncomfortable claim that many Christian leaders treat their marriage or singleness as a private matter largely irrelevant to their public ministry. Why does he consider this a dangerous separation, and do you agree?

2.He draws on his own marriage to Geri to illustrate the cost of treating ministry as the "first marriage" and one's spouse as secondary. What was the crisis that forced him to reorder those priorities, and what did that reordering require him to change concretely?

3.Scazzero argues that for married leaders, the health of the marriage is a primary indicator — and a primary shaper — of the health of the ministry. How does an unhealthy marriage tend to leak into a leader's team culture, decision-making, and emotional availability?