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I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.

Tullian Tchividjian

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.
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Different Grace Life
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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Grace Kindness Remedy
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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Free Happy People Think
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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Church Moments Thinking
Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
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Creating Expectations Reality
Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
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Complainer Entitlement Legalism
Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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Bottom Grace Run
The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
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Advice Christian Heart
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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Church People Thinking
Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
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Christian Effort Year
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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Compelled Feel Identity
Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
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Grace Little Think
Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
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Free God Jesus Someone
Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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Enough Heart Information
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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Get Better Need Self
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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Backyards First Tennis

I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.

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