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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.

Tullian Tchividjian

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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
Failing
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The gospel doesn't just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.
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I was spending way too much time thinking about me and what I needed to do, and far too little time thinking about Jesus and what he had already done for me.
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Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.
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The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.
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The people who tend to be the most gracious are those who know how badly they need grace
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To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.
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I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.
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The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.
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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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I think there is tribalism is a big deal inside of the church, that the church thinks of themselves as a tribe and not a mission.
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The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.
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The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.
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I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.
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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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When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.
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Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.
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Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.
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Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
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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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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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