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Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves 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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Get Better Need Self
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 Judgment Longing
Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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Bottom Grace Run
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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Miserable Source Validation
The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
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Advice Christian Heart
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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Enough Good Old Testament Work
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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Emotion Frustrat Men People
God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
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Enjoy Friendly Theological
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 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
Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
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Grace Little Think
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
Walking with God doesn’t lead to God’s favor; God’s favor leads to walking with God.
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Favor Favors God Walk
Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
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Fruit Grace Need
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

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