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God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.

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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
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Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.
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If we read the Bible asking first, 'What would Jesus do?' instead of asking 'What has Jesus done?' we’ll miss the good news that alone can set us free.
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The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.
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Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.
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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 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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I ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I was so disruptive to the rest of the household, that I could no longer live under their roof.
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Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.
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You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.
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I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.
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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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Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the stiff upper lip school of thought.
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The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.
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My job as a pastor and theologian is to tease out the nature and the necessity of the gospel in meticulous ways, in everything I say, in everything I like. I want desperately for the church in America to rediscover the power and the beauty and the nature and the necessity of the gospel.
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The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.
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When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.
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The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.
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The gospel is good news to those who know they don't measure up. It's offensive to those who think they do.
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