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Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.
Tullian Tchividjian
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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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The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.
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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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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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My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.
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We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of a holy and righteous God.
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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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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 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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Remember on your best day that Jesus had to die for you. Remember on your worst day that he did.
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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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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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Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.
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I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.
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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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You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.
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When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.
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When we depend on anything smaller than God to provide us with the security, significance, meaning, and value that we long for, God will love us enough to take it away. Much of our anger and bitterness, therefore, is God prying open our hands and taking away something we've held onto more tightly than him.
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The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
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People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.
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When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.
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