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Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.

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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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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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Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.
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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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Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor God's favor leads to walking with God.
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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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My lifestyle got so disruptive to my family that my parents had no choice but to say, You can't live here any longer if you're going to live this way. So, I was thrilled about it - thrilled!
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God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
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The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.
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I wish I could say that everything I do is for God’s glory but I can’t. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus’ blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself.
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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 hub of Christianity is not do something for Jesus. The hub of Christianity is Jesus has done everything for you.
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Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
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Only when you realize that the gospel has nothing to do with your obedience but with Christ's obedience for you, will you start to obey. The only Christians who end up getting better are those who realize that if they don't get better, God will love them anyway.
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