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The Emotionally Healthy Leader: How Transforming Your Inner Life Will Deeply Transform Your Church, Team, and the World Summary ↠ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Ning its profound implications for surviving stress planning and decision making building teams creating healthy culture influencing others and muchThe Emotionally Healthy Leader containsConcise assessments for leaders and teams to measure their leadership healthPractical proven strategies that have been developed over a 28 year period spent both in the local church and in euipping leaders around the. My journey through this book oscillated between finding it very helpful and insightful while at other times i struggled and even put the book down for long periodsOne challenge is that it is written primarily for church leaders I felt it could have sought to have broader application At other times the book made me feel entirely inadeuate as a leader So had to take breaks to recalibrate myselfHowever there was much that was very helpful The emphasis on rest Sabbath balance and preparing for transition were all very helpful The book is full of practical examples which although almost exclusively from church context do earth the principles in realityIt is a book I will recommend to people and my own team which is why I give it a good rating inspire if some of my comments above
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The Emotionally Healthy Leader: How Transforming Your Inner Life Will Deeply Transform Your Church, Team, and the World Summary ↠ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook WorldHelpful applications of how to face your shadow lead out of your marriage or singleness slow down and embrace endings for new beginningsGoing beyond simply offering a uick fix or new techniueThe Emotionally Healthy Leadergets to the core beneath the surface issues of uniuely Christian leadership This book is than just a book you will read; it is a resource you willcome back to over and over again. These were bought to use for the leadership team in the church Something for us to read together and work through on a regular basisFor me it s a similar theme to other stories of the same genre that I ve read previously but as with all books something always jumps up and grabs you or your attentionIt s a good read
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The Emotionally Healthy Leader: How Transforming Your Inner Life Will Deeply Transform Your Church, Team, and the World Summary ↠ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook Becoming a Better Leader Starts with a Transformed Inner LifeDo you feel too overwhelmed to enjoy life unable to sort out the demands on your time Are you doing your best work as a leader yet not making an impactHave you ever felt stuck powerless to change your environmentInThe Emotionally Healthy Leader bestselling author Peter Scazzero shows leaders how to develop a deep inner life with Christ exami. Bottom Line Up Front Very well written book that covers an important topic Burnout in ministry Scazzero also covers a range of other important topics in Christian leadership eg use of power navigating endings and beginnings that the rest of the body of Christian leadership literature is nearly devoid of making this an important reference work So why a 4 star instead of a 5 star review The book comes dangerously close and at one point to the idolatry line in the discussion of marriage flirting with spousal worship Additionally in the same discussion section the book gets a little uirky in a short anecdote regarding nakedness ie literally taking all your clothes off daily in the presence of your spouse for 20 min hinting at use of this practice as a marriage building daily discipline Finally as the book is primarily written for an audience of Christian leaders I found it light on biblical underpinning Not devoid just light There were many missed opportunities to shine the light of scripture on much of what Scazzero provides leaving the impression that the book is an assembly of well informed Christian opinion and experience rather than a work built solidly on biblical foundations This necessarily removes some of the authority of the assertions If you are able to look past these things you will likely rate the book as many have a 5 star work and enjoy it greatlyAmplifying Remarks followThe basic premise of the book is that many in full or nearly so vocational ministry are overworked burned out in marriages that are running on fumes consumed with busyness unable to rest and physically emotionally and spiritually exhausted Working full time in vocational ministry myself this is an assertion I see and have occasionally experienced being lived out on the front lines of ministry every day Thus I feel like this is a book that finds an easy audience willing to listen Much of the rest of the book is about unpacking solutions to this root issue The basic approach is finding and sustaining life and ministry rhythms to replace these unhealthy practices that lead to burnout Drawing on a number monastic traditions Scazzero makes a case for the practice of spiritual disciplines silence solitude deep engagement in alone times with God prayer rest sabbath keeping etc as helpful in breaking these unhealthy cycles and patterns The author suggests breaking these cycles by transforming the inner life and allowing this transformed inner life to drive new healthy patterns and outward expressions as Christian leaders lead others from this new place of balance The book suggests that inner life transformation begins with the practice of four key elements which are Face Your Shadow Unhealthy practice perhaps shaped by your family of origin that often shapes your interactions with others Lead out of Your MarriageSingleness exactly as it sounds Slow down for Loving Union Taking time to relax abide in Christ and let Him take on the heavy lifting that you have so desperately been trying to control Practice Sabbath Delight Againexactly as it soundsOne endearing aspect of this book throughout is that the book doesn t just mention ideas but rather puts meat to them by laying out several useable and practical suggestions about how to make each a regular pattern in a new transformed inner life This section is certainly no exceptionI particularly liked the section within the inner life discussion where Scazzero presents the idea of establishing a Rule of Life This Rule of Life concept is taken from the practices of the Benedictine Monastic tradition and involves an exercise in finding giving and receiving God s love across the full spectrum of life as viewed through four separate lenses Prayer Rest Relationships and Work Very practical and very well presentedThe chapter on Finding Sabbath Delight is also practical excellent and much needed My own observation and Scazzero s is that the practice of regular sabbath keeping seems to have nearly disappeared from the 21st century Church especially in North America Sadly this has taken a toll on those who lead it This section of the book if truly widely practiced would do much to restore thatIn part II of the book The Outer Life I was most grateful for the author s inclusion of some practical information on the use of power in ministry and the very thoughtful and practical approaches he outlines to healthy endings and new beginnings His approach to these obscure but very important topics and the manner and lucidity with which he presents them make it clear that his wise recommendations have been formed in the crucible of highly successful experience a reward not many can claim As stated above these are just topics which you rarely find even mentioned in other books on Christian leadership so there inclusion here is most helpfulFinally the uote that best speaks to what this book is really about You can t live at warp speed without warping your soul Pg 129In light of that this book is ultimately about a much needed unwarping the soul among Church leadership