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

Tullian Tchividjian

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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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We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of a holy and righteous God.
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My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.
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There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.
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Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
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If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.
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The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.
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I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible is not Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Paul, etc... but Jesus.
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Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make bad people good it makes dead people alive...the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.
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My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.
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The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.
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...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.
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Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.
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The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.
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When we reduce the notion of “calling” to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.
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A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'
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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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I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.
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Jesus plus nothing equals everything everything minus Jesus equals nothing.
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The pain cleared my vision, and once it was taken away, I realized just how much I'd been relying on the endorsement of others to make me feel like I mattered.
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Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time.
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