If you feel compelled to respond every time you’re criticized it reveals just how much you’ve built your identity on being right.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIANGod’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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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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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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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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Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
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Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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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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Walking with God doesn’t lead to God’s favor; God’s favor leads to walking with God.
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Because Jesus was someone, you’re free to be no one.
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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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We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
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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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The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.
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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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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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