Episode 31: Striving toward perfection
Some of us, in one way or another, are perfectionists. It’s not just wanting to do things well, but partly a fear of failure, of being “not good enough.” Thus, when Paul speaks of working strenuously to help make every believer in the church “fully mature in Christ” (Col 1:28), that might sound a little intimidating, just as Jesus’ words in the Sermon on the Mount—“Be perfect…as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matt 5:48) may sound impossibly stringent. How should we understand this?
