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The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.

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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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When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.
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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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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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The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.
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If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost your job and livelihood, gone through a divorce that came out of the blue, know that God is not punishing you. He is not waiting for you to do something.
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We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.
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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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Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.
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Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
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The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.
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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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Unfortunately, some Christians are guilty of throwing out an equivalent sentiment when they play the God is sovereign card as a way to trump every evil that comes 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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The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality rather, it produces immorality.
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Don't get me wrong - what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us.
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What kind of person should you be to someone who has fallen? The kind of person you will run to when you fall.
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I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.
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The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.
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I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.
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The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
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