
Picture Perfect
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As a culture, we have a love-hate relationship with perfectionism. We reward perfectionists for their insistence on setting high standards and their tireless efforts to achieve them. But psychologists link perfectionism with a host of problematic behaviors ranging from eating disorders to risk aversion to workaholism. Perfectionism is a crushing burden that can leave us angry, anxious, and paralyzed.
Is the solution just to "lighten up"? In Picture Perfect, counselor and author Amy Baker challenges the popular notion that perfectionists need to lower their standards. After carefully examining Scripture and drawing from twenty-five years of counseling experience, Baker concludes, "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 readers to dig beneath the frustration of perfectionism, Baker exposes what drives our perfectionism and shows 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.
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Amy Baker, PhD, is the ministry resource director at Faith Church (Lafayette, IN); director of counseling for Vision of Hope, a faith-based residential treatment program; instructor and counselor at Faith Biblical Counseling Ministries; a council member of the Biblical Counseling Coalition; and the author of Getting to the Heart of Friendships and Picture Perfect: When Life Doesn't Line Up as well as several counseling minibooks. She is the editor of Caring for the Souls of Children: A Biblical Counselor's Manual. She and her husband, Jeff, have two children.
Content
- Intro
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part 1
- 1. I Love Perfection! I Hate Perfection!
- 2. Ian: Performance-Based Perfection
- 3. Linda: The Angry Mother-in-Law
- 4. Harmony: A Daughter Who Is Never Good Enough
- 5. Greg: The Defeated Perfectionist
- 6. Penny: Living for Jesus?
- Part 2
- 7. A Perfect Standard
- 8. Growing into Our Position
- 9. More Classes in God's Academy
- 10. Satisfaction that Lasts More than a Moment
- Part 3
- 11. Paralyzed by Fear of Failure
- 12. A Spirit of Power, Love, and Self-control Instead of the Paralysis of Fear
- 13. Bryce and Angela: Two Ways of Trying to Look Good to Others
- 14. Lessons from a Humble Man
- 15. Learning to Handle Criticism
- 16. Converting Criticism into Blessing
- 17. The Weight of Guilt
- 18. Wallowing and False Guilt
- 19. Never at Rest
- 20. Resting
- 21. Evaluations that Lead to Shame
- 22. And When We Fail
- Discussion Questions
- With Grateful Thanks
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