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Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable.

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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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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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The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
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Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.
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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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The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.
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Only the Holy Spirit can comfort a person in the depths of grief.
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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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I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don't need the gospel, it's simple what non-Christian people need in order to be saved.
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God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.
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The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came to satisfy the deep judgment against us once and for all so that we could be free from the judgement of God, others, and ourselves.
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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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An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.
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We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.
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Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.
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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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Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.
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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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The people who have taught me the most about grace are those who have blown it so bad that they know how much they need it.
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God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.
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We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.
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