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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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Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.
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Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.
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From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.
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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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The good news of the gospel [for sufferers] is not an exhortation from above to 'hang on at all costs,' or 'grin and bear it' in the midst of hardship. No, the good news is that God is hanging on to you, and in the end, when all is said and done, the power of God will triumph over every pain and loss.
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Long-term, gospel-motivate d obedience can only come from the grace of what Jesus has already done, not the guilt of what we must do.
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When we reduce the notion of “calling” to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.
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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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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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Christianity is not Jesus is our example. Christianity is Jesus is our substitute.
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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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As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.
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We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.
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The gospel doesn't just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.
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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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We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God's law and God's gospel in our sanctification. But the law and the gospel do very different things.
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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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