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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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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
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Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.
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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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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 focus of the Christian faith is not our morality it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.
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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.
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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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The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel.
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I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.
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Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
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Real, pure, unadulterated freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any sense of need to secure for myself anything beyond what Christ has already secured for me.
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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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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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Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.
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We are not responsible for finding the right formula to combat or unlock our suffering.
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To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism
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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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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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Christmas is the beachhead of God’s campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.
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Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.
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