Leadership and What Your Heart is After
- Rev. Eric Kapur
- Jul 20, 2010
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How do we know if our heart is after God's heart?
In the first sermon in our series on leadership - Inside Out - we looked at how David is presented as the model king and leader in the biblical story. What set him apart, according to the narrative of 1 Samuel, is that he was a man after God's own heart.
Peter Scazzero provides a very insightful and challenging list of 10 signs that our hearts are after something else than God's (he calls it emotionally unhealthy spirituality). I think his list provides us with the core areas that often prevent us from being people of gospel influence in the lives of others. Here's the list:
1. Using God to run from God.
2. Ignoring the emotions of anger, sadness and fear.
3. Dying to the wrong things
4. Denying the past's impact on the present
5. Dividing our lives into "secular" and "sacred" compartments
6. Doing for God instead of being with God
7. Spiritualizing away conflict
8. Covering over brokenness, weakness and failure
9. Living without limits
10. Judging other people's spiritual journey
You can read more in Scazzero's helpful books - Emotionally Healthy Church and Emotionally Healthy Spirituality.