People Quotes by Tullian Tchividjian

The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.

— Tullian Tchividjian

The gospel doesn't just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.

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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.

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If we're not reaching the same people Jesus reached, then we're not preaching the same message Jesus preached.

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The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.

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The people who tend to be the most gracious are those who know how badly they need grace

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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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God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.

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I was always in places where I was widely accepted, approved and loved and I was finally in a place where people…

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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…

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Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping…

— Tullian Tchividjian

I was a surfer so I hung out with people who were surfers and made fun of people who weren't surfers and…

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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…

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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…

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The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't…

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Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you…

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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

We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone…

— Tullian Tchividjian

Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to…

— Tullian Tchividjian

Only when we see that the way of God's law is absolutely inflexible will we see that God's grace is absolutely indispensable.…

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I've got three kids. I worry about them but the gospel freed me and freed my wife. We are not trying to…

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Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. Thats not a…

— Tullian Tchividjian

When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot…

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The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation. I've got friends who are surfers,…

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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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God loves broken people because broken people are all that there are.

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We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.

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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…

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People who haven't experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real.

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The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.

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The people who have taught me the most about grace are those who have blown it so bad that they know how…

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If people knew the REAL us, they would run. God knows, stays, and loves.

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God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.

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The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions…

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The only thing that frees you from the need to pretend in order to make people believe you are something when you…

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Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've…

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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

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