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The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.

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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
Scandalized
Freedom
World

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The smaller you get-the smaller life makes you-the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.
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I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don't need the gospel, it's simple what non-Christian people need in order to be saved.
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There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.
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The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.
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God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain!
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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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If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost your job and livelihood, gone through a divorce that came out of the blue, know that God is not punishing you. He is not waiting for you to do something.
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Grace could not have done it’s curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.
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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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Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.
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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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I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.
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The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.
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God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.
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Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
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God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.
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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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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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Because Jesus was strong for us we are free to be weak.
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