What is excellence? You’ll find that most people have a different opinion of what excellence is. Some say that it’s a set point on a bar graph. You either meet the goal or you don’t, and whether you do or not is determined by the excellence of your product or service. Others will say it’s a set standard that has to be met in order for people to accept your product or service. These perceptions of what excellence means are not only misguided, but they are also unbiblical. Author Harold Best determines in his book, Music Through the Eyes of Faith, that excellence is simply “(…) the process of becoming better than I once was”. In other words, excellence is about learning and growing to better oneself. One’s talents or skills may not be perfect or even meet the guidelines of what is considered to be the industry standard, but excellence in what you do is determined by what you put into it. It says in Philippians 4:8 “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”