Tullian Tchividjian
Tullian Tchividjian
William Graham Tullian Tchividjian, born July 13, 1972, is the former senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and a former contributing editor to Christianity Today's Leadership Journal. He has written several books about Christianity and current issues...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth13 July 1972
CountryUnited States of America
mistake law people
We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God's law and God's gospel in our sanctification. But the law and the gospel do very different things.
christian get-better realizing
Only when you realize that the gospel has nothing to do with your obedience but with Christ's obedience for you, will you start to obey. The only Christians who end up getting better are those who realize that if they don't get better, God will love them anyway.
son simple views
Only when we see that the way of God's law is absolutely inflexible will we see that God's grace is absolutely indispensable. A high view of the law reminds us that God accepts us on the basis of Christ's perfection, not our progress. Grace, properly understood, is the movement of a holy God toward an unholy people. He doesn't cheapen the law or ease its requirements. He fulfills them in his Son, who then gives his righteousness to us. That's the gospel. Pure and simple.
christian moving movement
The gospel doesn't just ignite the Christian life but it keeps Christians growing and growing every day. There's no reason to move beyond the gospel. There's only movement more into it.
people pressure transformation
The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.
heart grace matter
The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.
christian focus done
To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism
jesus acceptance world-religions
Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make good people good; it makes dead people alive. That's the difference between the gospel of Jesus Christ and every other world religion. All the others exhort their followers to save themselves by being good, by conforming their lives to whatever their worshiped deity is. But the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.
jesus remember worst
Remember on your best day that Jesus had to die for you. Remember on your worst day that he did.
fun people surf
I was a surfer so I hung out with people who were surfers and made fun of people who weren't surfers and I listened to surf music and made fun of people who didn't listen to surfer music.
perfection grace pretending
The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.
christian broken suffering
Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we're broken.
people grace worst
Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.
grace want honest
Grace frees you to be honest about what you've always known to be true about yourself: that you're weaker & more afraid than you want to be.