The gospel doesn’t just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIANThe heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
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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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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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Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
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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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The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
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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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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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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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Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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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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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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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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Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.
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