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Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
Tullian Tchividjian
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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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The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.
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Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your self-sufficiency.
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Grace could not have done it’s curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.
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There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.
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Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. Thats not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God its a witness to God making it down to the worst people.
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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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Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the stiff upper lip school of thought.
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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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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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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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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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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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Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we're broken.
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God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.
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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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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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Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.
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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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The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.
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