No Performance Needed

Performance orientation is one of the most common maladies throughout the world. It consists of a pervasive need to please others and perform up to the expectations of others. This malady is crippling the Church from experiencing God's presence and becoming fruitful and effective in the pure work of the Gospel. Performance orientation means striving to perform with wrong motives--to win love and a sense of belonging when those have already been given to us "in Christ".

The result is compulsive work ethic, preoccupation with doing everything right, an inordinate desire to be liked or approved of, and dissatisfaction with our self for what you have achieved as opposed to who you are as a person. In Christians, it is rooted in an inability to believe God can love us unless we work for it. Those who were not nurtured as children can be especially tempted toward performing for love. 

Read Romans Chapter 8 and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to your spirit the Father's unconditional love and adoption without works. We don't have to perform for His love, because He first loved us and calls us His sons and daughters.


 "Behold what manner of love is this...."