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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
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The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.
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The Gospel is not ultimately a defense from pain, it is the message of God's rescue through pain. In fact, it allows us to drop our defenses, to escape not from pain but from the prison of How and Why to the freedom of Who?
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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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Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.
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A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'
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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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...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.
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Explanations are a substitute for trust.
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Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.
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Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!
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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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God loves broken people because broken people are all that there are.
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Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
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Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
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Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns - whatever it is for you - live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough, and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person.
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The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.
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There are a still lot of people in today's church who can easily identify the idolatry outside the church and are pretty proud of the fact that they are not like them. And yet, we are far too slow to recognize the idolatry inside the church and more painfully, the idolatry inside our hearts.
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I was always in places where I was widely accepted, approved and loved and I was finally in a place where people did not approve of me, did not accept me and did not love me. It was killing me.
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When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, Sin and resistance
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I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.
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