God’s grace is so counterintuitive and everything we do in our life is just based on conditions. You do this for me and I’ll do that for you. Or if you don’t do this for me, I won’t do that for you. And God’s grace works in a completely different direction.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIANWe are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
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The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got – the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.
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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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Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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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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Walking with God doesn’t lead to God’s favor; God’s favor leads to walking with God.
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God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they’ve really messed up…not the last.
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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
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If you feel compelled to respond every time you’re criticized it reveals just how much you’ve built your identity on being right.
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Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
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I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.
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Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
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We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
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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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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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