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The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.

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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Don't get me wrong - what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us.
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If we read the Bible asking first, 'What would Jesus do?' instead of asking 'What has Jesus done?' we’ll miss the good news that alone can set us free.
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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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Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
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I enjoy receiving love from my wife. I'm ecstatic when Kim loves me and expresses affection toward me. Something in me comes alive when she does that. But I've learned this freeing truth: I don't need that love, because in Jesus, I receive all the love I need.
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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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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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You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.
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Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.
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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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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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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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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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Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make bad people good it makes dead people alive...the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.
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To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism
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Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.
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God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.
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I was a surfer so I hung out with people who were surfers and made fun of people who weren't surfers and I listened to surf music and made fun of people who didn't listen to surfer music.
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The gospel doesn't just ignite the Christian life but it keeps Christians growing and growing every day. There's no reason to move beyond the gospel. There's only movement more into it.
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Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.
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