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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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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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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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My daily sins require daily distribution of God's grace. In that sense, it never ceases to surprise me because I don't deserve any of it. I mean, I deserve to be locked in a cage and for God to throw away the key.
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God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you have construct for yourself, or that others have construct for you. He may even use suffering to deconstruct that narrative.
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Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! Its the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance.
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God's grace is so counterintuitive and everything we do in our life is just based on conditions. You do this for me and I'll do that for you. Or if you don't do this for me, I won't do that for you. And God's grace works in a completely different direction.
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What kind of person should you be to someone who has fallen? The kind of person you will run to when you fall.
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God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.
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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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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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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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It's better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.
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Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.
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The pain cleared my vision, and once it was taken away, I realized just how much I'd been relying on the endorsement of others to make me feel like I mattered.
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When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.
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The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.
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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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The law is God's first word the gospel is God's final word.
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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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Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time.
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