The Performance Treadmill: Overcoming Idolatries of Achievement and Status in the Life of the Pastor

Too many Christian leaders are driven by insecurity, perfectionism, and anxiety over status and approval. This seminar traces these struggles to the pursuit of false idols of self, underpinned by deeper conflicts about identity, control and power. Simple cognitive approaches can help us to combat these default postures of the heart. But we explore a more radical response— an approach that seeks to incarnate the theological truths of our identity in Christ in a more experiential and intentional understanding of self as an image-bearing child of God.