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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. (Tullian Tchividjian)
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. View quote
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Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours. View quote
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The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be. View quote
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In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites. View quote
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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. View quote
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Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time. View quote
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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. View quote
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The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit. View quote
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The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust. View quote
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The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom. (Tullian Tchividjian)
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. View quote
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Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ. View quote
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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. View quote
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Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace. View quote
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An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion. View quote
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There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel. View quote
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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. View quote
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My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace. View quote
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I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively. View quote
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Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical. (Tullian Tchividjian)
Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. View quote
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Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, validate ourselves. View quote
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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. View quote
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Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out. View quote
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