We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIANI 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’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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Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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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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Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
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Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
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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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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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I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.
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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 always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
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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.
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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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