Tullian Tchividjian Quotes
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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.
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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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From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus.
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Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.
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People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need for it.
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Job's unraveling wasn't wrong or sinful; rather, it was emotionally realistic.
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The cross [is] the ultimate statement of God's involvement in the world on this side of heaven.
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There is no better news than that the God who makes the demand for perfection also meets the demand for perfection on our behalf.
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God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.
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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.
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Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.
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Grief, of course, is not something that operates according to a specific time frame, and it seems cold to suggest otherwise. Yet when we do not grasp that God is present in pain, we eventually insist on victory or, worse, blame the sufferer for not "getting over it" fast enough. This is more than a failure to extend compassion; it's an exercise in cruelty.
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Death is the operative device that sets us free in Christ - when we die, we truly live.
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The biggest lie about grace that Satan wants the church to buy is the idea that it’s dangerous and therefore needs to be kept in check.
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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.
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Remember on your best day that Jesus had to die for you. Remember on your worst day that he did.
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Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.
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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.
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The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.
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Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.
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Unfortunately, some Christians are guilty of throwing out an equivalent sentiment when they play the "God is sovereign" card as a way to trump every evil that comes your way.
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Because Jesus was strong for me, I am free to be weak; because Jesus won for me, I am free to lose; because Jesus was someone, I am free to be no one; because Jesus was extraordinary, I am free to be ordinary; because Jesus succeeded for me, I am free to fail.
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Grace could not have done it’s curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.
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The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.
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If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.
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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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The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.
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When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance"
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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.
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