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 people who tend to be the most gracious are those who know how badly they need grace — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
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 Image
The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
If we're not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we're not preaching the same message Jesus preached. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
People who haven't experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real. — 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
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
I was always in places where I was widely accepted, approved and loved and I was finally in a place where people… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
When we reduce the notion of “calling” to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions… — 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
Only when we see that the way of God's law is absolutely inflexible will we see that God's grace is absolutely indispensable.… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone… — 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
Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. That's not a… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation. I've got friends who are surfers,… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
People who know they are not good make the best messengers of grace because they are desperately aware of their own need… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If people knew the REAL us, they would run. God knows, stays, and loves. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The people who have taught me the most about grace are those who have blown it so bad that they know how… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
God loves broken people because broken people are all that there are. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I was a surfer so I hung out with people who were surfers and made fun of people who weren't surfers and… — 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
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
Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. Thats not a… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
The only thing that frees you from the need to pretend in order to make people believe you are something when you… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
There are a still lot of people in today's church who can easily identify the idolatry outside the church and are pretty… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot… — 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 Image
“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 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
“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 Image
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 Image
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 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 in order… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Sanctification consists of the daily realization that in Christ we have died, and in Christ we have been raised. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
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 Image
