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The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.

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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
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Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.
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The gospel is good news to those who know they don't measure up. It's offensive to those who think they do.
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Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.
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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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Job's unraveling wasn't wrong or sinful rather, it was emotionally realistic.
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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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If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.
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What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.
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When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.
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God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
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I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively.
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My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.
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Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
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The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.
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Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.
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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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Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.
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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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