
EVERYTHING IS PERFECT // GOOD VIBES ONLY
Matthew 5:48 CSB
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
SELF-ORIENTED PERFECTIONIST
EXTERNALLY-ORIENTED PERFECTIONIST
OTHERS-ORIENTED PERFECTIONIST
Matthew 5:48 CSB
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Matthew 5:43-48 CSB
“You have heard that it was said, Love your neighbor and hate your enemy. 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be children of your Father in heaven. For he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what are you doing out of the ordinary? Don’t even the Gentiles do the same?
48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
PERFECTIONISM IS A FORM OF PRIDE
“I’M BETTER THAN YOU” PRIDE
“I’M TOO VALUABLE” PRIDE
“I’LL DO IT MYSELF” PRIDE
“HUMBLE BRAG” PRIDE
Luke 14:11 CSB - Jesus
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.
PRIDE IS WORSHIPPING THE MOST SACRED OF COWS: MYSELF
Luke 18:9-12 CSB
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
11 The Pharisee was standing and praying like this about himself: ‘God, I thank you that I’m not like other people—greedy, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.’
ADMIT YOUR WEAKNESS
Luke 18:13-14 CSB
But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’
14 I tell you, this one went down to his house justified rather than the other, because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted. (repeating himself 14:11)
Philippians 2:5-8 ESV
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
2 Corinthians 12:9 CSB
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness.”
QUESTIONS FOR THE ROAD:
How does perfectionism most commonly show up in you and your actions?
How do you see God bringing awareness to your own pride within perfectionism, and what is your response?
What areas of your life do I need to admit weakness to receive the grace that God gives through Jesus Christ?