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God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain!

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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 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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Because Jesus was strong for us we are free to be weak.
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The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
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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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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 desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.
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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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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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Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.
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A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.
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When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.
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God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.
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God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you have construct for yourself, or that others have construct for you. He may even use suffering to deconstruct that narrative.
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The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.
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Walking with God doesn't lead to God's favor God's favor leads to walking with God.
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There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.
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Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours his strength, not yours his performance, not yours his victory, not yours.
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Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.
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Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
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We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.
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