The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.
Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours. - Tullian Tchividjian
Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.
- Tullian Tchividjian
If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back. - Tullian Tchividjian
If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.
A preacher who doesn't believe he's that bad will attract people who don't think they're that bad. And that's bad. - Tullian Tchividjian
A preacher who doesn't believe he's that bad will attract people who don't think they're that bad. And that's bad.
God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up. - Tullian Tchividjian
God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.
Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us. - Tullian Tchividjian
Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.
We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace. - Tullian Tchividjian
We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last. - Tullian Tchividjian
God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.
The people who tend to be the most gracious are those who know how badly they need grace - Tullian Tchividjian
The people who tend to be the most gracious are those who know how badly they need grace
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 Tchividjian
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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