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 TchividjianIf you feel compelled to respond every time you're criticized it reveals just how much you've built your identity on being right.
Tullian TchividjianOur assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.
Tullian TchividjianThe Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.
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