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

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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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We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.
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If you look at the gospel, it just doesn't break things apart. The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation.
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The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: Just do it. The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: It is finished
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...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.
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Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.
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God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.
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I didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.
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In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.
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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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I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.
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God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.
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Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.
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There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.
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I was spending too much time thinking about how I was doing, if I was learning everything I was supposed to be learning during this difficult season, whether I was doing it right or not, taking my spiritual pulse, etc - my inner lawyer was working overtime.
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Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time.
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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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Christianity is not Jesus is our example. Christianity is Jesus is our substitute.
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The Gospel is not ultimately a defense from pain, it is the message of God's rescue through pain. In fact, it allows us to drop our defenses, to escape not from pain but from the prison of How and Why to the freedom of Who?
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If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.
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The people who tend to be the most gracious are those who know how badly they need grace
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