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The law is God's first word the gospel is God's final word.

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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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The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.
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Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.
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The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.
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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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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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Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.
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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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Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
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Only the Holy Spirit can comfort a person in the depths of grief.
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Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the stiff upper lip school of thought.
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There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.
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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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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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The law demands that we do it all the gospel declares that Jesus paid it all.
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To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism
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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 heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification.
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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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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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