Tullian's New Gospel Tweets

Here are some More Gospel Tweets from Tullian Tchividjian. (The first batch can be found here and here.) Think on these thing!

• God’s intention for the gospel is that it not only grow wider in the world but that it also grow deeper in Christians.
• When you trust in Jesus, your identity and worth is no longer based on what you can accomplish but on what Jesus accomplished for you.
• I preach the gospel with life or death passion, not because I believe the gospel fully but because I don’t believe the gospel fully!
• One reason we fail in OUR doing is because we fail to grasp at a deep, heart level what JESUS has already done.
• One reason we give up in our efforts to obey is because we obsess more over our performance for Jesus than we do Jesus’ performance for us.
• The gospel frees us from the slavery of becoming preoccupied with our goodness.
• The gospel frees us to GIVE UP our place for others, not GUARD IN our place from others because our security is in Christ, not our place.
• God’s grace toward us is not a lessening of his demands. Grace is experienced when we realize these demands have already been met in Jesus.
• The gospel is meant to bring us to the end of ourselves so that we finally place our meaning, purpose, and sense of well-being in Jesus.
• Because Christians find our emotional security in Christ’s achievement for us, we can admit our wrongs and weaknesses and not feel deflated.
• My struggle isn’t believing my performance can EARN God’s favor; my struggle is believing my performance can KEEP God’s favor.
• Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.
• Only the gospel can cause you to rejoice and be glad in your expendability: because Jesus was someone, your FREE to be no one.
• God’s love for me and approval of me does not get bigger when I obey or smaller when I disobey. This makes me want to obey him more, not less!
• Fall in love with Jesus’ work for you and you’ll grow. Fall in love with your work for Jesus and you’ll shrink.
• Those who end up obeying more are those who increasingly realize that their standing with God is not based on their obedience, but Christ’s.
• If you’re overly concerned with what others think then your living in the prison of human approval. Only the gospel can set you free!
• What motivates our obedience determines whether or not it is a sacrifice of praise. Obedience to God’s commands prompted by fear or guilt is not true obedience.
• The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in, and motivated by, the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure.
• Our spiritual lives become unimpressive and laborious when we spend our time and energy trying to spiritually impress God.
• We only start “doing better” as we increasingly focus on what Jesus has already done, not on what we must do.
• When we transfer trust from our success to Christ’s success, we experience the abundant freedoms that come from not having to measure up.