Tullian Tchividjian Quotes
Spiritual growth is marked by a growing realization of just how much grace you need.
I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don't need the gospel, it's simple what non-Christian people need in order to be saved.
Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.
The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.
There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.
If your theological convictions are not producing a deeper love for others, then it's time to rethink some stuff.
A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'
The people who have taught me the most about grace are those who have blown it so bad that they know how much they need it.
When we reduce the notion of “calling” to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.
Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way."
Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.
We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of a holy and righteous God.
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.
There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.
Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.
Being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home. I couldn't figure out whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three.
Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.
Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.
The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.
What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.
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.
The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.
In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.
It's better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.
The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.
Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, validate ourselves.
You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.
The gospel is not about a lifestyle that we live, it's about the law-fulfilling life that Christ lived.
Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.
When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.
The hub of Christianity is not "do something for Jesus." The hub of Christianity is "Jesus has done everything for you".
When it comes to understanding and appreciating grace, our biggest problem is our so-called goodness...not our self-perceived badness.
God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.
There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.
From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.
I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible is not Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Paul, etc... but Jesus.
Long-term, gospel-motivate d obedience can only come from the grace of what Jesus has already done, not the guilt of what we must do.
Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.
Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love.
The pain cleared my vision, and once it was taken away, I realized just how much I'd been relying on the endorsement of others to make me feel like I mattered.
Don't get me wrong - what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us.
People who haven't experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real.
The Gospel frees us to speak honestly about the reality of pain, confident that nothing is riding on our ability to cope with or fend off suffering.
