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One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World by Tullian Tchividjian


“The 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.” - Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World -


“Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior. Too many people have walked away from the church, not because they’re walking away from Jesus, but because the church has walked away from Jesus.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“Pulpits today are full of preachers telling one-legged people to jump higher and run faster. Musician Rich Mullins once wrote, “I have attended church regularly since I was less than a week old. I’ve listened to sermons about virtue, sermons against vice. I have heard about money, time management, tithing, abstinence, and generosity. I’ve listened to thousands of sermons. But I could count on one hand the number [of sermons] that were a simple proclamation of the Gospel of Christ.”4”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“Sadly, the Christian church has not proven to be immune to performancism. Far from it, in fact. In recent years, a handful of books have been published urging a more robust, radical, and sacrificial expression of the Christian faith. I even wrote one of them—Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different. I heartily amen the desire to take one’s faith seriously and demonstrate before the watching world a willingness to be more than just Sunday churchgoers. That Christians would want to engage the wider community with God’s sacrificial love—living for their neighbors instead of for themselves—is a wonderful thing and should be applauded. The unintended consequence of this push, however, is that if we’re not careful, we can give people the impression that Christianity is first and foremost about the sacrifice we make for Jesus rather than the sacrifice Jesus made for us; our performance for him rather than his performance for us; our obedience for him rather than his obedience for us. The hub of Christianity is not “do something for Jesus.” The hub of Christianity is “Jesus has done everything for you.” And my fear is that too many people, both inside and outside the church, have heard our pleas for intensified devotion and concluded that the focus of Christian faith is our love for God instead of God’s love for us. Don’t get me wrong—what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us. Furthermore, it often seems that the Good News of”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-



“Children will run from law, and they’ll run from grace. The ones who run from law never come back. But the ones who run from grace always come back. Grace draws its own back home.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-


“Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable.…”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-

“The law offends us because it tells us what to do—and most of the time, we hate anyone telling us what to do. But ironically, grace offends us even more, because it tells us that there is nothing we can do, that everything has already been done. And if there is something we hate more than being told what to do, it’s being told that we can’t do anything, that we can’t earn anything—that we are helpless, weak, and needy.” 
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-


“He knows that the only way to break the cycle of retribution and oppression and heartbreak is to demolish the ladder of deserving altogether.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-


“One surefire way to know you’re starting to grasp this message of grace is when you’re finally able to admit that you’re not the good guy—that you never were and apart from grace never will be.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-


“If you’re simply looking for moral reformation (improved behavior), you might need a life coach, a cheerleading section, or a really good friend, but not a Savior. But if you require mortal resurrection, you’re going to need something beyond yourself, someone who will raise dead people to life, give sight to the blind, and set captives free.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-



“Gospel only sounds good to a heart that knows it is bad. For people who think they’re good, grace is frustrating. For people who know they’re not, grace is freeing.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-


“Southern novelist Walker Percy writes in Love in the Ruins, “We love those who know the worst of us and don’t turn their faces away.”6”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-



“Christian growth does not involve becoming stronger and stronger, more and more competent every day. It involves becoming more and more aware of how weak and incompetent we are and how strong and competent Jesus was and continues to be for us.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-


“I wish I could say I do everything for God’s glory. I can’t. Neither can you. What I can say is Jesus’ blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself. I wish I could say Jesus fully satisfies me. I can’t. Neither can you. What I can say is Jesus fully satisfied God for me.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-



“The refrain repeated through this books is that everything we need, we already possess in Christ. This means that the what-if has been taken out of the equation. We can take absurd risks, push harder, go further, and leave it all on the field without fear--and have fun doing so. We can give with reckless abandon, because we no longer need to ensure a return of success, love, meaning, validation, and approval. We can invest freely and forcefully, because we've been freely and forcefully invested in. (188)” -Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-


“The gospel doesn’t just free you from what other people think about you, it frees you from what you think about yourself.” -Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-


“It amazes me that you will hear great concern from inside the church about too much grace, but rarely will you ever hear great concern from inside the church about too many rules. Indeed, the absurdity of God’s indiscriminate compassion always gets “religious” people up in arms. Why? Because we are, by nature, glory-hoarding, self-centered control freaks—God wannabes. That’s why.” -Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-



why we need to hear, each and every week the basic good news that because of Jesus’ finished work, we already have all of the justification, approval, significance, security, freedom, validation, love, righteousness, and rescue for which we desperately long---and look for in a thousand things that are infinitely smaller than Jesus.” (205)” -Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-


“The fact is, real life is long on law and short on grace—the” -Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-



“The reason this is so important is because many people inside the church think God cares only that we obey. In fact, many believe that it is even more honorable—and therefore more righteous—when we obey God against all desire to obey Him. Where did we get the idea that if we do what God tells us to do, even though “our hearts are far from Him,” it’s something to be proud of, something admirable, something praiseworthy, something righteous? Don’t get me wrong, we should obey when we don’t feel like it (I expect my children, for instance, to clean their rooms and respect their mother and me even when they don’t feel like it). But let’s not make the common mistake of proudly equating that with the righteousness that God requires. The truth is that doing the right thing with the wrong motivation reveals deep unrighteousness, not devout righteousness.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-



“If I can do enough of the right things, I will have established my value. Identity is the sum of my achievements. Hence, if I can satisfy the boss, meet the needs of my spouse and children, and still pursue my dreams, then I will be somebody. In Christian theology, such a position is called justification by works. It assumes that my worth is measured by my performance. Conversely, it conceals a dark and ghastly fear: If I do not perform, I will be judged unworthy. To myself I will cease to exist.” -Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-



“Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly to our performance and accomplishments. Performancism casts achievement not as something we do or don’t do but as something we are or aren’t.” -Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-



“The 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.” -Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-


“Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good. The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior. Too many people have walked away from the church, not because they’re walking away from Jesus, but because the church has walked away from Jesus.” -Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-



“Galatians 5:6, “The only thing that counts is faith [passive righteousness] expressing itself through love [active righteousness]” (NIV). Faith alone, in other words, gives the power to love.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-



“We need to be told that the sins we cannot forget, God cannot remember,”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-


“Pulpits today are full of preachers telling one-legged people to jump higher and run faster.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-



“Also, unless you critique moralism, many irreligious people won’t know the difference between moralism and what you’re offering. The way to get antinomians to move away from lawlessness is to distinguish the gospel from legalism. Why? Because modern and post-modern people have been rejecting Christianity for years thinking that it was indistinguishable from moralism. Non-Christians will always automatically hear gospel presentations as appeals to become moral and religious, unless in your preaching you use the good news of grace to deconstruct legalism. Only if you show them there’s a difference—that what they really rejected wasn’t real Christianity at all—will they even begin to consider Christianity.2”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-




“A high view of the Law involves the devastating reminder that God’s acceptance of us is ultimately contingent on Christ’s perfection, not our progress; Christ’s imputation, not our improvement.”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-




“to what some Christians today would have you believe, the biggest problem facing the church today is not “cheap grace” but “cheap Law”—the idea that God accepts anything less than the perfect righteousness of Jesus. My friend John Dink explains cheap Law this way: Cheap law weakens God’s demand for perfection, and in doing so, breathes life into … [our] quest for a righteousness of [our] own making.… It creates people of great zeal, but they lack knowledge concerning the question “What Would Jesus Do?” Here is the costly answer: Jesus would do it all perfectly. And that’s game over for you. The Father is not grooming you to be a replacement for his Beloved Son. He is announcing that there is blessing for those who take shelter in his Beloved Son. Cheap law tells us that we’ve fallen, but there’s good news, you can get back up again.… Therein lies the great heresy of cheap law: it is a false gospel. It cheapens—no—it nullifies grace.11”
-Tullian Tchividjian, One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World-





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