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When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.
Tullian Tchividjian
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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
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Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we're broken.
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What kind of person should you be to someone who has fallen? The kind of person you will run to when you fall.
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The gospel doesn't just ignite the Christian life but it keeps Christians growing and growing every day. There's no reason to move beyond the gospel. There's only movement more into it.
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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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Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.
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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.
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The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality rather, it produces immorality.
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The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.
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Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.
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The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.
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I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.
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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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Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.
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Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.
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The gospel doesn't just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.
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The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.
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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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When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him.
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God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.
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