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Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.
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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
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Jacksonville
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William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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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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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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Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.
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I was spending way too much time thinking about me and what I needed to do, and far too little time thinking about Jesus and what he had already done for me.
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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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What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.
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Mt. Sinai says, 'You must do. Mt. Calvary says, 'Because you couldn't, Jesus did.' Don't run to the wrong mountain for your hiding place
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I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.
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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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Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.
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Christian growth doesn't happen by first behaving better, but by believing better--believi ng in bigger, deeper, brighter ways what Christ has already secured for sinners.
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God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.
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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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The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.
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To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.
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Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.
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The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.
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I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.
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If we read the Bible asking first, 'What would Jesus do?' instead of asking 'What has Jesus done?' we’ll miss the good news that alone can set us free.
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There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.
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