Catalyst Track: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality // Day Two

This track comes from Pete Scazzero’s newly updated book, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality.

In this journey of emotionally healthy spirituality, we are talking about radical change at the core of our being.

We want to be the men and women God has called us to be—our true selves in Christ. Enormous distractions keep us from listening to our feelings, our desires, our dreams, our likes, and dislikes.

My journey into emotionally healthy spirituality began very simply. Each day, as part of my devotions with God, I would allow myself to feel emotion before God. Then I would journal. Over time I began to discern patterns and God’s movements in a new way in my life.

In this 3-day track, Pete Scazzero gives leaders the opportunity to very practically evaluate and adjust the way they practice and live a life of healthy spiritual leadership.

You conduct meetings, resolve conflict, cast vision, lead teams. You build relationships, listen, speak and love. Your role as a leader in ministry or an organization requires a lot from you. And the key to leading others with mature leadership is to make sure you, yourself have a mature understanding and practice of emotionally healthy spirituality.

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Day 2 –  Counterfeit Worlds

 

Every time I make an assumption about someone who has hurt or disappointed me without confirming it, I believe a lie about this person in my head. This assumption is a misrepresentation of reality. Because I have not checked it out with the other person, it is very possible I am believing something untrue. It is also likely I will pass that false assumption around to others.

The ninth commandment reads: “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor” (Exodus 20:16).

To check out assumptions, or stop mind reading, as we like to call it, is a very simple but powerful tool that eliminates untold conflicts in relationships. It enables me to check out whether what I’m thinking or feeling about you is true. It enables me to clarify potential misunderstandings.

When we leave reality for a mental creation of our own doing (hidden assumptions), we create a counterfeit world. When we do this, it can properly be said that we exclude God from our lives because God does not exist outside of reality and truth. In doing so, we wreck relationships by creating endless confusion and conflict.