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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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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.
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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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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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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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The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.
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In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.
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Job's unraveling wasn't wrong or sinful rather, it was emotionally realistic.
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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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Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
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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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The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
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God's grace is so counterintuitive and everything we do in our life is just based on conditions. You do this for me and I'll do that for you. Or if you don't do this for me, I won't do that for you. And God's grace works in a completely different direction.
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The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.
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The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.
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Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.
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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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Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.
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Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
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Remember on your best day that Jesus had to die for you. Remember on your worst day that he did.
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To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism
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