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Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.
Tullian Tchividjian
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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
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Jacksonville
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William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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There are a still lot of people in today's church who can easily identify the idolatry outside the church and are pretty proud of the fact that they are not like them. And yet, we are far too slow to recognize the idolatry inside the church and more painfully, the idolatry inside our hearts.
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I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.
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The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.
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God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.
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I wish I could say that everything I do is for God’s glory but I can’t. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus’ blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself.
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The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.
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Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.
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The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.
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My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor
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The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.
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Only when you realize that the gospel has nothing to do with your obedience but with Christ's obedience for you, will you start to obey. The only Christians who end up getting better are those who realize that if they don't get better, God will love them anyway.
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The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.
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As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.
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If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.
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The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
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The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.
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