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" To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ. "

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" God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations. "

Tullian Tchividjian

Suffering

Free

God

" The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be. "

" My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness - not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit - wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess. "

" If we read the Bible asking first, 'What would Jesus do?' instead of asking 'What has Jesus done,' we'll miss the good news that alone can set us free. "

" The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours. "

" For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be Himself for you. And in the end, what we discover is that this really is enough. "

" Thankfully, while our self-righteousness reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. "

" Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours! "

" The Gospel declares that our guilt has been atoned for, the law has been fulfilled. So we don't need to live under the burden of trying to appease the judgment we feel. "

" A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance. "

" Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace. "

Tullian Tchividjian

God

Find

" 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. "

Tullian Tchividjian

People

Worst

" An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion. "

" The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit. "

" The emphasis of the Bible is on the work of the Redeemer, not on the work of the redeemed. "

" There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself. "

" When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation. "

" From the time God saved me at 21 years old, I've always been fascinated by the parables of Jesus. "

Tullian Tchividjian

God

Years

" The Bible makes it clear that self-righteousness is the premier enemy of the Gospel. "

" Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! It's the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance. "

" I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do. "

Tullian Tchividjian

Afraid

Life

" We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness. "

" Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out. "

" God loves us too much to leave us in the hell of unhappiness that comes from trying to do his job. Into the slavish misery of our ladder-defined lives, God condescends. "

" The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us. "

" My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace. "

" Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love. "

" 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. "

" The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant. "

" When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient. "