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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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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
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Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.
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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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Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.
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The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.
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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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As long as I am focusing on the faults of others, then I don't have to face my own.
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Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
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