To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Christianity is not "Jesus is our example." Christianity is "Jesus is our substitute." — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The gospel doesn't just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The law demands that we do it all; the gospel declares that Jesus paid it all. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Real, pure, unadulterated freedom happens when the resources of the gospel smash any sense of need to secure for myself anything beyond… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
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… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The overwhelming emphasis of contemporary Christianity: "Just do it." The overwhelming emphasis of Biblical Christianity: "It is finished" — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
If you look at the gospel, it just doesn't break things apart. The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible's radically disproportionate focus on God's saving… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! Its the truest truth… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
My job as a pastor and theologian is to tease out the nature and the necessity of the gospel in meticulous ways,… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make bad people good; it makes dead people alive...the gospel is God's… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Only when you realize that the gospel has nothing to do with your obedience but with Christ's obedience for you, will you… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
You see, the secret of the gospel is that we become more spiritually mature when we focus less on what we need… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Jesus came to show us that the gospel explains success in terms of giving, not taking; self-sacrifice, not self-protection; going to the… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I've got three kids. I worry about them but the gospel freed me and freed my wife. We are not trying to… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make good people good; it makes dead people alive. That's the difference… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
What I'm most deeply grateful for is that God's love for us, approval of us, and commitment to us does not ride… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“Sadly, the Christian church has not proven to be immune to performancism. Far from it, in fact. In recent years, a handful… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The gospel doesn't just ignite the Christian life but it keeps Christians growing and growing every day. There's no reason to move… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
For years and years, Christians have been singing about their wandering hearts. Our hearts need to be recalibrated and realigned and reoriented… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“The gospel doesn’t make bad people good; it makes dead people alive. That’s the difference between the gospel of Jesus Christ and… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
“The gospel doesn’t just free you from what other people think about you, it frees you from what you think about yourself.” — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
“There is but one good,” C. S. Lewis writes in The Great Divorce; “that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
“An institution theoretically devoted to providing comfort to those in need (the church) is in trouble because it has embraced the same pressure cooker… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
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… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality;… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves - a purpose it has certainly served in my… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
The Gospel is not ultimately a defense from pain, it is the message of God's rescue through pain. In fact, it allows us to… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share
