Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.
Tullian TchividjianMy observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.
Tullian TchividjianOur deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.
Tullian TchividjianThe more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.
Tullian TchividjianI grew up in a remarkable home, the middle of seven children. My parents raised us well. They loved us well. We laughed hard growing up. But being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home, whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three. When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some bad decisions about who I hung out with, I dropped out of high school, got kicked out of the house.
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