The Desire to Be Perfect

Council Fire · Oct 8, 2026 · 3m

“You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen from grace.” Galatians 5:4 (NIV) The new believers in the church in Galatia enjoyed the message of the Gospel and accepted Jesus to save them from their sins. However, after they accepted the Gospel message, their day-to-day lives began to focus on their behaviour, rather than on the love of God. Once a person enters into faith in Jesus and begins to live out the moral teachings of the Bible, there is a trap of entering what I call “perfectionism.” It is also called “legalism”—a rule-based life…