As a culture, we have a love-hate relationship with perfectionism. We reward perfectionists for their insistence on getting things right and their tireless efforts to achieve them. But perfectionism is such a burden that can leave us angry, anxious, and paralyzed.

Is the solution just to “lighten up”? In this webinar, counsellor and author Amy Baker will challenge the popular notion that perfectionists need to lower their standards. After carefully examining Scripture and drawing from 25 years of counselling experience, Baker will help us understand that the problem is not that our standards are too high and we just need to lighten up. The problem is that God’s instruction to be perfect in Matthew 5:48 doesn’t lead us to see how desperately we need him and drive us to our perfect Savior.

Helping us dig beneath the frustration of perfectionism, Baker will expose what drives our perfectionism and show how Christ’s perfection changes our motives, beliefs, desires, fears, anxieties, and goals. Readers will discover that only God’s grace can transform the aching “not enough” of perfectionism into the overflowing abundance of faith.