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At Grace Family we focus our worship on Sunday to impact our lives every other day of the week as well. We also believe no one is perfect but everyone is welcome to worship God with us. So, no matter where you're from, what you've done, or what your week has been like, let's worship God and learn from His word together today.

What is perfection?

• Dictionary Definition: The condition, state, or quality of being free or as free as possible from all flaws and defects.

Philippians 3:4-6

"4 though I myself have reasons for such confidence. If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; 6 as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless."

Romans 7:14-20

"14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. u For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it."

 What can come from perfectionism? (Some but not everything)

• Increase depression and anxiety
• Reduced productivity
• Low self-esteem

Perfectionism is a real thing!

We can't be perfect!

Ecclesiastes 7:20

"Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous, no one who does what is right and never sins."

We don't need to be perfect!

Titus 3:5

"he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,"

Romans 8:1-2

"1 Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death."

Just because we won't be perfect.....does not mean we let sin control us!

Romans 6:12-14

"12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. 14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace."

3 Types of People (Caricatures) 

• Perfectionist
• Christ's Perfection
• Lazy Cheater

 The 3 Shifts (to help us change our perfectionist mindset)

1. Shifting from performance to grace. 
2. Shift from self-reliance to trust.
3. Shift from our perfection to Jesus' perfection.

Ephesians 2:8-9

"8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—9 not by works, so that no one can boast."

Proverbs 3:5-6

"5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight."

Philippians 3:7

"7 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ."

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