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 TCHIVIDJIANGod 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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Walking with God doesn’t lead to God’s favor; God’s favor leads to walking with God.
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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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Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
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Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
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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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Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
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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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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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The gospel doesn’t just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.
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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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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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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.
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Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
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