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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
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Jacksonville
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William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.
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Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.
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Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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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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Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. Thats not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God its a witness to God making it down to the worst people.
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Mt. Sinai says, 'You must do. Mt. Calvary says, 'Because you couldn't, Jesus did.' Don't run to the wrong mountain for your hiding place
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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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Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.
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The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.
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The hub of Christianity is not do something for Jesus. The hub of Christianity is Jesus has done everything for you.
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Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.
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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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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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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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Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.
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I enjoy receiving love from my wife. I'm ecstatic when Kim loves me and expresses affection toward me. Something in me comes alive when she does that. But I've learned this freeing truth: I don't need that love, because in Jesus, I receive all the love I need.
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Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.
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To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism
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My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor
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