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The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.
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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People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.
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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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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 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 desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.
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Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.
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Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way.
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Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.
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As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.
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Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. Thats not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God its a witness to God making it down to the worst people.
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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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Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.
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Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.
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My job is not to show my children that I'm the man, but to show them that Christ is the man.
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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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Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.
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There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.
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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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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 world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.
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