In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Todd Adkins and Eric Geiger are joined by Pete Scazzero, the founder of New Life Fellowship Church in Queens, New York City and author of The Emotionally Healthy Leader. During their conversation, they discuss discipleship being the foundation of leadership.

BEST QUOTES

"Pondering a text, prayerfully before God, that’s where revelation comes."

"I realize why the American church doesn’t do discipleship. It’s so demanding. It’s so counter-cultural to American evangelicalism. So we water down discipleship to grow-serve-connect. It’s so radical to how we do church today."

"I think the Americanisms in our Christianity is so enormous we can’t even see it."

"We are going to invest our lives to change the way the church does discipleship, so that our mission is effective around the world and so that we are raising up leaders. Because you are never going to have leaders develop without a serious discipleship that deeply changes people."

"There are certain things I can’t do that are limits given by God as a gift that other leaders can do."

"My whole life is structured around being with Jesus. All of my leadership flows out of that. And without that I would not be here."

"Leadership in the home is always first, after Jesus, of course. I don’t segment my leadership, my walk with Jesus, from my marriage. I want to be one with Jesus. I want to be one with my wife."

"Our greatest gift to the world, I believe, is our marriage. We model something of the depth and the love of Jesus as a sign and wonder to the church and the world."

"Slow down your life. And recognize there are gods, idols, that are in the church as much as they are in the world. And if you bow down to them they will destroy you. The two biggest gods are numbers and what people think, impressing people."

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