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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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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
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Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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Christianity is not Jesus is our example. Christianity is Jesus is our substitute.
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Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
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We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.
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I agree we have enough books that attempt to explain why God allows suffering, presumably in a way that lets God off the hook. And while much smarter men than I have constructed elaborate systems in this pursuit, they are by definition exercises in speculation.
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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 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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The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.
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It's better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.
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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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Being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home. I couldn't figure out whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three.
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Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.
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A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.
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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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The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.
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Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
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A preacher who doesn't believe he's that bad will attract people who don't think they're that bad. And that's bad.
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If we're not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we're not preaching the same message Jesus preached.
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Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor God's favor leads to walking with God.
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Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.
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There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.
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