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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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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
Disobedience
Grace
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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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I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.
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My daily sins require daily distribution of God's grace. In that sense, it never ceases to surprise me because I don't deserve any of it. I mean, I deserve to be locked in a cage and for God to throw away the key.
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The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
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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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The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: Just do it. The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: It is finished
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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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Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!
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While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.
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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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As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.
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Real, pure, unadulterated freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any sense of need to secure for myself anything beyond what Christ has already secured for me.
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Because of Jesus the sin we cannot forget God does not remember.
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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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Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.
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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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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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