Spiritually “Healthy,” Emotionally Unhealthy – Is That Possible? was the topic of the second plenary session undertaken by Rev Peter and Mrs Geri Scazzero. They shared their amazing conversion stories, crises they faced, and lessons learned.

Geri talked about the importance of being brutally honest with ourselves. She said that the day she admitted that she was not a loving person was the day she started becoming a loving person. “God can handle the truth and can give you grace to handle the truth as well.”

Peter argued that it is impossible for a Christian to be spiritually mature while remaining emo-tionally immature if we are supposed to be the image bearers of God. If like Saul, we are gifted but emotionally unhealthy, the gap can destroy us. “My first work is not to be a pastor but to seek His face. Not my will be done but His,” he exclaimed.

An extraordinary testimony of forgiveness and reconciliation was shared by Mr Glenn Knight and Mr Tan Koon Swan in a leadership dialogue that created much buzz, entitled Recovering Failures, Practicing Grace. Glenn was responsible for prosecuting two key people in the Pan-El case which included Koon Swan. Glenn himself was brought down as a high flyer, prosecuted for a crime he said he did not commit and was fined, imprisoned, and barred from practice for 16 years. It was then that God managed to get his attention and revealed to him that bitterness can cause a person more harm than anything else, and that God wanted him to forgive.

Koon Swan claimed that he does not harbor any bitterness towards Glenn. Koon Swan proudly declared that “The prosecutor and prosecuted became friends!” He shared his trauma of failure, suffering, pain, and the point in which he experienced God and finally received restoration.

The first day of ELC 2009 ended with a side splitting fourth plenary session by none other than the S.U.M.O. Guy himself, Mr Paul McGee. The participants gleaned insights from Restoring Relationships, Personal Effectiveness.

It started off with a hilarious rap MTV introduction and an ice breaker of eyeballing your neighbor, telling him or her she is “gorgeous” and “mad.” Paul, the bestselling author who made popular the phrase “Shut Up, Move On” shared with us four phrases in relation to his new acronym S.A.R.A.H: “Grieving Is Good” but it is not forever. He convinced the audience to “Avoid Isolation” because stress makes us stupid. He also talked about two other terms, “Perspective Pays” and “Molehills
Matter.”

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