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When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.

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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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Grace
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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 grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
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We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God's law and God's gospel in our sanctification. But the law and the gospel do very different things.
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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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The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed.
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People who haven't experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real.
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The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
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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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In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.
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When you fail to distinguish Law and Gospel, you lose both.
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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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From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.
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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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If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost your job and livelihood, gone through a divorce that came out of the blue, know that God is not punishing you. He is not waiting for you to do something.
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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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The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.
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God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.
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Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther.
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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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Christianity is not Jesus is our example. Christianity is Jesus is our substitute.
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