Perfectionism Makes Me Indecisive — What Can I Do?

Ask Pastor John

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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How can perfectionists make decisions without getting paralyzed by fear? Pastor John shares seven encouragements for those who feel stuck.

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0:00.0	Good Monday morning. Thanks for listening. As we enter the final weeks of our Bible
0:08.4	reading plan in 2024, let me know what you think. Did you join us in reading your Bible this year?
0:13.6	Did it encourage you to hang with it?
0:15.6	Perhaps this is your first time reading the whole Bible in a year.
0:18.6	Maybe you started and dropped out. Whatever happened?
0:22.1	I'd love to know how we can better serve your commitment to reading the whole Bible in 2025.
0:27.0	We may do this again. I thought that Navigator's Bible reading plan worked really well as sort of a substructure to organize
0:34.4	our Bible questions throughout the year and to map them onto our current reading.
0:38.4	But you tell me. Email me your thoughts at AskPester John at desiring God.org and put Bible reading in the subject line if you would.
0:47.0	Thursday we looked at perfectionism through the eyes of a high school student to win our good grades good enough.
0:52.0	Great question. Today we're back to the topic of perfectionism. to win our good grades good enough?
0:52.6	Great question.
0:53.4	Today we're back to the topic of perfectionism
0:55.3	and how it makes us indecisive in our later years.
0:58.6	How do we overcome the paralysis of perfectionistic
1:01.6	indecision in important life decisions.
1:04.6	The challenge faced by two retirees, Eliza and her husband,
1:08.9	a couple with a historical connection to you,
1:11.0	Pastor John.
1:11.6	Eliza writes with a story and a dilemma.
1:13.9	Hello, Pastor John, thanks for your ministry
1:15.7	over all these years.
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