The Spiritually Healthy Leader

The Spiritually Healthy Leader uncovers the core commitments that threaten to sabotage your relationships and ministry.

Most ministry leaders don’t usually implode from outside pressures; rather, they are most often incapacitated from their inner struggles. Dave Wiedis, the Founder of ServingLeaders Ministries, helps pastors, counselors, and teachers uncover what is functionally most important to them, understand how their core commitments or “ruling passions” can hijack their lives, marriages, and ministries, and gently guides them to grow in their passion for God.

The Spiritually Healthy Leader exposes these root causes and offers the path to deep life transformation, freedom in Christ, and deliverance from self-sabotage. With Christ as the true center of their lives and ministry, leaders can walk vibrantly with God, live free from self-sabotage of the heart, experience the ripple effect of spiritual flourishing, and see that effect positively impact close relationships, families, churches, and the next generation.

Helps uncover the root causes of self-sabotage so leaders can understand what hinders life and ministry. Actionable, gospel-focused direction to encourage spiritual flourishing and living wholeheartedly for Christ. Based on decades of experience counseling Christian leaders, author Dave Wiedis understands the pressures of ministry and wisely guides them to depend on Christ.

1. Opening Credits
2. Dedication
3. Introduction
4. Part 1: The Problem | Chapter 1: A Vital Misdiagnosis of Our Spiritual Health
5. Chapter 2: Where Peter Got It Wrong and We Can Too: The Supremacy of Ruling Passions
6. Chapter 3: When Good Goals Go Bad: The Origin, Nature, and Function of Ruling Passions
7. Chapter 4: Ruling Passions and Motives of the Heart
8. Chapter 5: A Preliminary Dive into Finding Your Ruling Passions
9. Part 2: The Consequences: The Destructive Nature of Ruling Passions | Chapter 6: We Can’t Serve Two Masters
10. Chapter 7: Ruling Passions Will Rule Our Pulpit and Sabotage Our Ministry
11. Part 3: Transformation: When Godly Goals Become Your Ruling Passions | Chapter 8: Christ: Our Supreme Ruling Passion
12. Chapter 9: The Supremacy of Christ and Our Desires
13. Chapter 10: Where Paul Got It Right and We Can Too: The Supremacy of Christ
14. Part 4: A Biblical Response to Our Ruling Passions | Chapter 11: Preparing Our Hearts for Transformation
15. Chapter 12: Addressing Our Resistances
16. Chapter 13: Identify Our Ruling Passions and Let Confession Be Our Reset
17. Chapter 14: Ask God to Redeem Our Passions
18. Chapter 15: Process Emotions in a Godly and Healthy Way
19. Chapter 16: Let Christ Be Our Strength
20. Chapter 17: Walk in the Truth
21. Chapter 18: A Personal Plan for Transformation
22. Chapter 19: Putting It All Together: My Story
23. Chapter 20: So Much to Lose, Everything to Gain
24. Appendix: Stories of Ruling Passions
25. Closing Credits