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To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism

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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
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Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
Christian
Christ
Done
Narcissism
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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 passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.
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Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.
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God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.
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God's grace is so counterintuitive and everything we do in our life is just based on conditions. You do this for me and I'll do that for you. Or if you don't do this for me, I won't do that for you. And God's grace works in a completely different direction.
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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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I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.
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I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.
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We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.
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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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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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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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When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, Sin and resistance
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Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.
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In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.
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The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.
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The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
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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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When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.
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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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