Tullian Tchividjian
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The fall of Steve Lawson reminds me of two things I learned in the aftermath of my own fall:
1) you are capable of failing in a way that is unthinkable to you right now.
2) God’s grace is big enough to handle the fact that your greatest failure may be ahead of you.
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Best line from
#BohemianRhapsody
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Freddie Mercury: “We’re four misfits who don't belong together and we're playing for other misfits. They're the outcasts at the back of the room. We're pretty sure they don't belong either. We belong to them.”
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My Aunt
@RuthBellGraham
ministering to the deepest parts of my soul. Thank you Aunt “Bunny”...I love you ❤️
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The reason I am alive today is NOT because in my darkest days I held on to God. It’s because in my darkest days God held on to me. It is HIS faithfulness that is great, not ours.
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Two things I have learned very acutely over the last four years:
1) You are capable of failing in a way that is unthinkable to you right now.
2) God’s love and forgiveness are big enough to cover the fact that your greatest failure may be in front of you.
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The message of Christianity is not "do something big for God." The message of Christianity is "God has done something big for you."
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“Never once did Jesus scan the room for the best example of holy living and send that person out to tell others about him. He always sent stumblers and sinners. I find that comforting.”
@Sarcasticluther
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If we're not attracting the same kinds of people Jesus attracted, we're not preaching the same message He preached:
http://t.co/TieZtX4964
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Welcome to the valley of the shadow of death...thank God grace reigns here.
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God wants Christians to be the safest people you can confess your failures to, not the scariest.
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Almost every Christian who has reached out to me after they have totally screwed up and bottomed-out as a result has said the same thing: their non-Christian friends stuck with them while their Christian friends bailed.
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“The last thing someone in the pit of depression can do is reach out. They need someone to climb down into the darkness, sit there with them awhile, then remind them there's a world above waiting for them when they're ready.”
@sammyrhodes
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The people who have had the deepest impact on me are those who have loved me at my worst, not my best.
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The core message of Christianity is not "do something big for God." The core message of Christianity is "God has done something big for you."
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I am just as in need of grace and forgiveness today as I have ever been. My life doesn’t look like Jesus’—it looks like someone who needs Jesus.
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God is so, so good. So tender. So patient. So forgiving. So unconditionally loving. I hope you know that. It’s true. Your badness is no match for his goodness, your guilt no match for his grace. Because of Jesus, his delight in you is uninterrupted. He will never blink or bail.
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Sound doctrine is supposed to make you humble, gracious, tender, forgiving, grateful, merciful, and loving. Which is why it baffles me that those who seem most committed to “sound doctrine” tend to be hard, snarky, crotchety, sarcastic, and judgmental. (See 1 Cor. 13:2)
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Two things I have learned very acutely over the last five years:
1) You are capable of failing in a way that is unthinkable to you right now.
2) God’s love and forgiveness are big enough to cover the fact that your greatest failure may be in front of you.
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No vertical condemnation does not mean no horizontal consequences. Surrender early.
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However one wants to define a “celebrity pastor”—I was one. And then it all came crashing down.
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The message of the Bible in three sentences:
God’s demand: Be perfect.
God’s diagnosis: You’re not perfect.
God’s deliverance: Jesus was perfect for you.
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I have hundreds of letters from people all over the world telling me their own crash and burn stories and they all reveal a sad common thread: the Christian community is all too often the scariest place for fallen people to fall down and for broken people to break down.
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When you’re at the top, it’s hard to know who your true friends are because you have so much to offer. But when you’re at the bottom and have nothing to offer but liability to anyone who comes close, that’s when you take notice of who is there.
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You are not defined by your worst moments. You are not defined by your greatest accomplishments. You are not defined by what others think of you OR what you think about yourself. You are not defined by what you do or fail to do. You are defined by what God has done for you.
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We need grace because we fail, because we lie, because we hide things, because we get mad when we don’t get our way, because we gossip, because we’re impatient, because we’re not thankful, because we’re selfish, because we hold grudges and refuse to forgive. We all need grace.
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Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.
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Your brokenness will help people so much more than any of your “put-togetherness” ever could.
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"If the biggest sinner you know isn’t you, then you don’t know yourself very well." Jean Larroux
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God wants every local church to be the first place people think to run to when they’ve really screwed up, not the last place.
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I can tell you from personal experience that every time I tell my own story of adultery and divorce, I’m less nervous telling a non-Christian than I am a Christian—they tend to be less shocked by sin and more surprised by grace.
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It was mercy that welcomed the prodigal son home. It was grace that threw him a party.
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If our churches are not filled with the same desperate, train-wrecked people that Jesus attracted, then we’re not delivering the same message that Jesus delivered.
It’s really that simple.
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“May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is 'good.' I want to be in a church of the fainthearted, the failed, the feeble and the ailing...who believe in the forgiveness of sins." Martin Luther
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Jesus did not say, “Come to me and I’ll give you a to-do list; come to me and I’ll show you how to fix yourself and others.”
He said come to me if you’re tired of hiding, tired of trying to make it on your own, tired of keeping up with appearances—and I will give you REST.
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The reason I am alive today is NOT because in my darkest days I held on to God. It’s because in my darkest days God held on to me. It is HIS faithfulness that is great, not ours.
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“When I thought God was hard, I found it easy to sin; but when I found God so kind, so good, so overflowing with compassion, I beat my breast to think that I could ever have rebelled against One who loved me so, and sought my good.” Charles Spurgeon
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I am just as in need of grace and forgiveness today as I have ever been. My life doesn’t look like Jesus’—it looks like someone who needs Jesus. And it is utterly exhausting (and counterproductive) to pretend otherwise.
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Nothing changes people more than being loved when they least deserve it.
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I'm learning more and more that grace frees you to face the truth about yourself with hope and not despair.
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God loves the broken you. The real you. The you that can honestly say you don't know things. The you that hides.
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Your theological convictions are not too strong but too weak if you can't be friends w/ someone whose convictions are different from yours.
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The local church should be the one place where the guilty find grace and the fallen find forgiveness.
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If we’re not attracting the same people Jesus attracted, then we’re not preaching the same message Jesus preached.
http://t.co/YW436lMs3m
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I have felt like giving up on God many times, but God has never given up on me.
What keeps me believing is not that I hold on to him, but that he holds on to me even when I let go.
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If all of our sins and secrets were made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.
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There is a big difference between listening and waiting to talk.
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You never forget those who relentlessly check in on you when you are at your lowest, when you have nothing to offer but liability and pain.
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Jesus is not an idea. He is a person. A person who invites weary, burdened, broken, guilty, failing people to find love and forgiveness and grace and mercy and rest. He will never leave you. He will never forsake you. He loves you—not because you are good, but because he is good.
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I hear from hundreds of pastors who are struggling and very few of them have any real friends that they feel safe confessing their weakness, sin, and discourgement to. Most feel that they always have to be “on” and to be strong. The pastorate can be very lonely and dehumanizing.
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When I was a pastor, I’d say, “If you knew everything about me that God knows, you wouldn’t come to this church. And if I knew everything about you that God knows, I’d be scared to have you in this church.” 😊But...we NEED churches where it’s safe to confess our sins and secrets.
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The Christian community should be the one community in all of society that is known for restoration rather than retribution, forgiveness rather than fault-finding. It should be a safe place to land and a soft place to fall.
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“Just as I am, without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me...”
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It was mercy that welcomed the prodigal son home. It was grace that threw him a party.
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Karma: Good people get good stuff; bad people get bad stuff.
The Gospel: the bad get the best, the worst inherit the wealth, and the slave becomes a son.
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All of us hide things about ourselves—things we don’t want others to know or see. Because if they did, they would leave us. God knows and sees those things. And he promised that he would never leave you. The worst parts of you do not tempt God to give up on you.
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Contrary to what many people assume, church is not a place where good people gather. Church is a place where guilty people gather to be reminded that, because of what Jesus has done for us, we are safe from the judgment we deserve.
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Preachers who know they need the gospel most, preach the gospel best.
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God’s tenderness toward me and patience with me when I have been at my worst has only made me want to love him more, not less.
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"Grace abounds at the low places, where we are weak, broken and helpless....grace grows amidst the ruins of sin."
@mckaycaston
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Christianity should feel like “I can finally breathe", not “I haven’t done enough.”
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Preachers: if you’re gonna use yourself as an example in your sermon, make sure it’s an example of weakness and need not strength and accomplishment.
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Heaven is not our reason for loving God; heaven is our reward for God loving us.
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"Jesus did not die at the hands of muggers, rapists, and thugs. He fell into the well-scrubbed hands of deeply religious people." Brennan Manning
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Take heart: God has YOU even when it feels like you don’t have HIM.
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I used to pray that God would protect my kids from making all the same mistakes I’ve made. While I still pray God’s protection over my kids, I pray that he would do whatever it takes to win their hearts, even if that means allowing them to crash and burn.
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God's grace doesn't just cover the hundreds of sins you are aware of committing but also the millions you are too proud to see. All of them—forgiven.
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God doesn't love you because you are good. God loves you because He is good.
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The message of the Bible in three phrases:
1. God’s demand: “be perfect.”
2. God’s diagnosis: “no one is perfect.”
3. God’s deliverance: “Jesus was perfect for you.”
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What makes the Gospel offensive isn’t who it leaves out but who it lets in: God only loves bad people because bad people are all there are.
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I am alive today, not because in my darkest moments I held on to God. I am alive today because in my darkest moments, God never let go of me.
I’ve abandoned God more times than I can count over the course of my life, but He has never once abandoned me. And He never will.
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If the whole world knew EVERYTHING about you that God knows about you, everyone would abandon you. This makes God’s promise to never leave you or forsake you that much more mindblowingly beautiful.
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My friend Jean Larroux once said, “If you are not the worst sinner you know, you don’t know yourself very well.” The truth is, we tend to be very good lawyers when it comes to our own sin, but very good judges when it comes to the sins of others.
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I'm discovering that teaching grace to people who didn't grow up in church is so much easier than teaching grace to those who did.
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The message of the church—the ONLY message of the church—should be: “By grace you are saved, through faith.” Not, “here is a recipe for getting your act together.”
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“Come to me all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Jesus
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I wish I could say I love Jesus with ALL of my heart. I can't. Neither can you. What I can say is that Jesus loves me with ALL of his heart.
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My friend Jean Larroux once said, “If you are not the worst sinner you know, you don’t know yourself very well.” The truth is, we tend to be very good lawyers when it comes to our own mistakes, but very good judges when it comes to the mistakes of others.
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Sometimes the only prayer you can muster is "Help me."
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I think it gives people hope when we are transparent and truthful about our failures and fears.
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“Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.” Daddy Bill
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"Jesus did not die at the hands of muggers, rapists, and thugs. He fell into the well-scrubbed hands of deeply religious people." Brennan Manning
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We suffer many consequences because of sinful choices we make, but losing God’s love is NOT one of them.
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True friends make the invisible grace of God visible in the darkest moments of your life.
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"The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others." Henri Nouwen
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We know we've failed to grasp the heart of the gospel when the sins of others bother us more than our own.
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Jesus is not an idea. He is a person. A person who invites weary, burdened, broken, guilty, failing people to find love and forgiveness and grace and mercy and rest. He will never leave you. He will never forsake you. He loves you—not because you are good, but because he is good.
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The reason I am alive today is NOT because in my darkest days I held on to God. It’s because in my darkest days God held on to me. It is HIS faithfulness that is great, not ours.
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The heartbeat of the Christian faith is Good News—not good advice, good technique, or good behavior. In other words, the root of Christianity is not “do something for Jesus.” The root of Christianity is “Jesus has done everything for you.”
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If you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.
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Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.
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The Bible is not a record of good people earning God’s blessing; it’s a record of bad people receiving God’s blessing because Jesus earned it for us.
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I have learned that words and advice do very little to change the heart and mind of someone “on the run.” Sometimes we just have to let them go off into the far country and then welcome them home with open arms after God brings them to their senses.
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Every time I look at social media I think, “Well, the good news is that we still believe in sin and it still really bothers us. The bad news is that the sin that bothers us the most is not our own, but other peoples.”
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Knowing God loves you unconditionally frees you to admit the truth about yourself without fearing ultimate rejection.
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It has taken me 46 years, but I am now convinced that one of the best things God does for us is to keep us from knowing anything beyond the next step.
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You can never fully know what another person is going through. Everyone needs grace from everyone.
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