The gospel is not about a lifestyle that we live, it's about the law-fulfilling life that Christ lived.
Tullian TchividjianI didn't realize that I was in a self-made prison of human approval and human acceptance. Didn't even realize it. Most of the prisons we live in we are not conscious of.
Tullian TchividjianI was always in places where I was widely accepted, approved and loved and I was finally in a place where people did not approve of me, did not accept me and did not love me. It was killing me.
Tullian TchividjianThe ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.
Tullian Tchividjian