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The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.
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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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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The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.
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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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Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin.
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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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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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When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.
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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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When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.
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Real, pure, unadulterated freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any sense of need to secure for myself anything beyond what Christ has already secured for me.
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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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When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, Sin and resistance
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Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
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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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God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
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We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
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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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I think there is tribalism is a big deal inside of the church, that the church thinks of themselves as a tribe and not a mission.
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Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.
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I was spending way too much time thinking about me and what I needed to do, and far too little time thinking about Jesus and what he had already done for me.
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