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Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.
Tullian Tchividjian
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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
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Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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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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Long-term, gospel-motivate d obedience can only come from the grace of what Jesus has already done, not the guilt of what we must do.
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God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.
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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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I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.
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We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God's law and God's gospel in our sanctification. But the law and the gospel do very different things.
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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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Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.
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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 only thing that frees you from the need to pretend in order to make people believe you are something when you are actually not is the gospel because the gospel tells you that identity, my meaning, my security, and all of those things are in Christ.
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The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it’s dangerous and therefore needs to be kept in check.
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Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
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Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
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Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.
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Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.
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Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.
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Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
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My lifestyle got so disruptive to my family that my parents had no choice but to say, You can't live here any longer if you're going to live this way. So, I was thrilled about it - thrilled!
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People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.
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