Quotes by Tullian Tchividjian

About Tullian Tchividjian:

William Graham Tullian Tchividjian is the former senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and a former contributing editor to Christianity Today??'?s Leadership Journal. He has written several books about Christianity and current issues.
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The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.

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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.

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I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible is not Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Paul, etc... but Jesus.

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There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as if sanctification happens as a result of emulation.

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When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.

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Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

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The smaller you get—the smaller life makes you—the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.

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God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God declares to us concretely that the debt has been paid, the ledger put away, and that everything we need, in Christ we already pos...

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An institution theoretically devoted to providing comfort to those in need (the church) is in trouble because it has embraced the same pressure cooker we find everywhere else.

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When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought...

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We make a big mistake when we conclude that the law is the answer to bad behavior. In fact, the law alone stirs up more of such behavior. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the law. To be sure, the Spirit does use both God's law and God'...

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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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The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.

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I wish I could say that everything I do is for God’s glory but I can’t. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus’ blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself.

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Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus.

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one primary enemy of the Gospel—legalism—comes in two forms. Some people avoid the gospel and try to save themselves by keeping the rules, doing what they’re told, maintaining the standards, and so on (you could call this “front-door legalism...

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most people live their life as if their justification depends on their sanctification: if I do and become all that I must do and become, God will love me and accept me.

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By looking at the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us, we totally miss the Point–like the two on the road to Emmaus. As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing ...

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Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we'...

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

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Author Bio

  • NameTullian Tchividjian
  • DescriptionPresbyterian minister
  • BornJuly 13, 1972