Choose Better
Each person, share some milestones you have hit or are approaching. Things like 10 years (or 10 days) at the same job, paid off that credit card, kept that new year’s resolution for 3 months, etc.
Some follow up questions: What choices did you make along the way to get where you are now? How have you changed compared to who you were at the start of those journeys?
Some of us may struggle with perfectionism. (No need to raise your hands.) How do we try to work our way to perfection?
Some follow up questions: Why do you think we choose to make things perfect? Has working for perfection ever backfired on you? What happened?
Some of us may feel great the way we are. (You do you!) What makes you feel the most content and confident?
Some follow up questions: Why is choosing individuality so important to us? What does it mean to choose to put yourself at the center of your life’s story?
A guy named Paul wrote about the tension between perfectionism and “you be you.” Read it out loud here.
Some follow up questions: What jumps out to you in Paul’s writing? According to Paul, how can we choose a new life?
Our culture is chock full of two lies. One says “You should be better.” The other lie is the response, “You’re fine just the way you are, no need to change.” Deep down, we know both are wrong. Yet in the midst of this, God offers a third way—he offers change that leads to life.