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God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.
Tullian Tchividjian
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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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My lifestyle got so disruptive to my family that my parents had no choice but to say, You can't live here any longer if you're going to live this way. So, I was thrilled about it - thrilled!
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The gospel doesn't just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.
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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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Long-term, gospel-motivate d obedience can only come from the grace of what Jesus has already done, not the guilt of what we must do.
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We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of a holy and righteous God.
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Christianity is not Jesus is our example. Christianity is Jesus is our substitute.
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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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Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.
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God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
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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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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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When we reduce the notion of “calling” to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.
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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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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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Remember on your best day that Jesus had to die for you. Remember on your worst day that he did.
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The only thing that frees you from the need to pretend in order to make people believe you are something when you are actually not is the gospel because the gospel tells you that identity, my meaning, my security, and all of those things are in Christ.
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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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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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God loves broken people because broken people are all that there are.
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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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