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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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Tullian Tchividjian
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 13
Pastor
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian
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Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.
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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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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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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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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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Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.
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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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There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.
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When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.
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Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable.
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Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the stiff upper lip school of thought.
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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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