Latest Tullian Tchividjian Quotes from Interviews

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• I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Thinking, Church, Moments

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• I was a surfer so I hung out with people who were surfers and made fun of people who weren't surfers and I listened to surf music and made fun of people who didn't listen to surfer music.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Fun, People, Surf

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• If you look at the gospel, it just doesn't break things apart. The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Together, Looks, Break

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• I 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 Tchividjian

  Acceptance, Self, Approval

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• I 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 Tchividjian

  People, Killing, Accepted

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• Because the church has moved away from the gospel anytime you move away from the gospel, you at the same time move toward pretense, you move toward image-keeping, you move toward the need to pretend.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Moving, Church, Needs

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• The gospel is not about a lifestyle that we live, it's about the law-fulfilling life that Christ lived.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Law, Christ, Lifestyle

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• There are a still lot of people in today's church who can easily identify the idolatry outside the church and are pretty proud of the fact that they are not like them. And yet, we are far too slow to recognize the idolatry inside the church and more painfully, the idolatry inside our hearts.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Heart, People, Church

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• I think there is tribalism is a big deal inside of the church, that the church thinks of themselves as a tribe and not a mission.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Thinking, Church, Tribes

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• The gospel doesn't just ignite the Christian life but it keeps Christians growing and growing every day. There's no reason to move beyond the gospel. There's only movement more into it.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Moving, Movement

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don't need the gospel, it's simple what non-Christian people need in order to be saved.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Simple, Thinking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Moving

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Thinking, Important, Church

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way."

  Tullian Tchividjian

  I Don't Need You, Needs, Deeds

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• My lifestyle got so disruptive to my family that my parents had no choice but to say, "You can't live here any longer if you're going to live this way." So, I was thrilled about it - thrilled!

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Choices, Parent, Way

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Grace, Rediscovery

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• Being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home. I couldn't figure out whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Children, Home, Three

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• 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 obviously bad decisions about who I hung out with and the things that I did.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Home, Decision, Fit

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain!

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Pain, Rescue, Rescue Me

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

• The 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 Tchividjian

  Self, Get Better, Needs

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

• I was spending way too much time thinking about me and what I needed to do, and far too little time thinking about Jesus and what he had already done for me.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Thinking, Done

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

• I was spending too much time thinking about how I was doing, if I was learning everything I was supposed to be learning during this difficult season, whether I was doing it right or not, taking my spiritual pulse, etc - my inner lawyer was working overtime.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Spiritual, Thinking, Pulse

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

• I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Validation, Miserable, Source

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

• I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Men, Frustrated, Should

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

• God is not interested in what you think you should be or feel. He is not interested in the narrative you have construct for yourself, or that others have construct for you. He may even use suffering to deconstruct that narrative.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Thinking, Church, Narrative

  "Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free". p. 78-80. Book by Tullian Tchividjian, www.christianpost.com. 2012.