Emotionally Healthy Success: Measuring What Matters Most to Jesus

The way we define success is breaking us. And we're being invited into a health.

In Emotionally Healthy Success, Peter Scazzero launches a quiet revolution--calling leaders to reject the world's metrics of speed, growth, and applause for Jesus' slower, deeper way. Drawing from hard-won lessons as a pastor and founder of Emotionally Healthy Discipleship, he charts a practical path toward deep transformation--one that reshapes your inner life, your team, and your church for lasting impact.

How we define success matters because there are real consequences for getting it wrong. When we measure success by numbers and image, we inevitably invest our best energies in quick returns, short-term fixes, and an anxious search for the next "big thing." In the process, we damage ourselves and those we lead. More importantly, we drift from Jesus' upside-down way--where the first are last, power is found in weakness, and faithfulness counts more than fame.

Scazzero invites us into the Jesus revolution of success no one saw coming--a radical reorientation of leadership around his life and teaching. Through four defining reversals, he unveils a new way of leading marked by slowing down, attuning and listening in prayer, embracing limits, and finding God's power in hiddenness rather than charisma or strategy.

At the heart of the book lies The Emotionally Healthy Scorecard for Success, a fresh framework drawn from more than thirty years of global ministry. It introduces eight markers for Personal Formation--the inner life of integrity, rest, and surrender--and eight markers for Culture Formation--the outward fruit of emotionally healthy leadership that shapes marriages, teams, and entire congregations. Together, they redefine what fruitfulness and long-term missional impact truly look like in God's kingdom.

Finally, Scazzero calls leaders to embrace a Rule of Life strong enough to hold the weight of their calling, recovering the church's ancient monastic DNA for the formation of today's pastors, staff, and volunteers. He then shows how to ruthlessly reset the way we live and lead, putting first things first so that both our personal lives and our communities can flourish.

Emotionally Healthy Success is a prophetic yet deeply practical invitation for every kind of leader--from small group leaders to board members to lead pastors--to trade exhaustion for wholeness, image for integrity, and hurried results for fruit that will last for generations.

Founder of Emotionally Healthy Discipleship—a global movement transforming how the church lives, leads, and brings impact to the world in the way of Jesus.

Peter Scazzero is a pastor, author, and global voice for a revolution in the way we lead and follow Jesus. Along with his wife, Geri, he founded Emotionally Healthy Discipleship, a groundbreaking ministry transforming the church through the integration of emotional health and a slowed-down spirituality with Jesus. What began over thirty years ago at New Life Fellowship Church in Queens, New York—where Pete served as senior pastor for twenty-six years—has grown into a worldwide movement touching pastors and leaders in more than twenty-one languages. His books have sold over three million copies, sparking what many describe as a new operating system for the global church. Pete hosts the top-ranked Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast and is the author of several bestselling books, including Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, The Emotionally Healthy Leader, and Emotionally Healthy Discipleship. He and Geri now serve as founders and ambassadors-at-large for Emotionally Healthy Discipleship.