Streams of Thought: Tullian Tchividjian on Twitter on Grace & Gospel

A good brother, Tim Brister had what I thought was a great idea to compile a bunch of Paul Tripp's Twitter posts on Grace. As a follower of Tripp's, I find his tweets to be edifying, Christ-exalting, and encouraging (and sometimes, convicting). It was great to be able to run through so many of them in one place. In His post, found HERE, Tim mentioned others whose tweets we've all grown to love. Tullian Tchividjian's name was mentioned and I heartily agreed. Tullian's tweets about the Gospel and Grace of God in Christ are often thought-provoking AND rich with me-lessness, pointing the reader directly to the Christ. I basically volunteered to compile a bunch of Tullian tweets on the Gospel and Grace and it was providential. This morning as I set out to do this task, I am gripped by my NEED for the Gospel today. I am thankful for my access to the Father through Christ, and for the men of God we've been gifted with whose tweets are compilation-worthy. Below you'll find a sampling of these tweets. Later, I'll make an attempt to put more of them together in a more useful format. I pray the Lord use them to enourage us as we seek to remember and take hold of the Gospel for every day.
Grace and Peace

The gospel doesn’t simply ignite the Christian life; it’s the fuel that keeps Christian’s going and growing every day.
The gospel reminds us that we become more mature when we focus less on what we need to do for God & more on all God has already done for us.
The gospel tells me my identity & security is in Christ--this frees me to give everything I have because in Christ I have everything I need
Christian growth doesn't happen 1st by behaving better, but believing better--believing in deeper ways what Christ has already secured for u
The gospel tells us we don’t need to spend our lives earning the approval of others because Jesus has already earned God’s approval for us
When you understand that your significance & identity is anchored in Christ, you don’t have to win—you’re free to lose
Christian growth doesn't happen by working hard to get something u don’t have. It happens by working hard to live in light of what u do have
The world says that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. But the gospel tells us that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.
When you are united to Christ, then all that is Christ’s becomes yours: Access to God and affection from God can never be lost
The gospel explains success in terms of giving, not taking; self-sacrifice, not self-indulgence; going to the back, not getting to the front
The gospel empowers us to live for what's timeless, not trendy--to follow Jesus even when it means going against what's fashionable
Because of Christ’s finished work, sinners can have the approval, acceptance, security, freedom, love, righteousness, & rescue they long for
The only antidote there has ever been to sin is the gospel—and since we never leave off sinning, we can never leave the gospel.
Because of Christ's propitiatory work on my behalf I no longer need preeminence, prosperity, position, promotions, praise or popularity.
Apostle Paul never starts w/ what we need to do; he always begins w/ what God has already done; to get it backwards is to miss the gospel
The vertical indicative (what God's done for me) always precedes horizontal imperative (how I'm to live in light of what God's done for me)
What we need practically can only be experienced as we come to deeper understanding of what we are positionally—whats already ours in Christ
When you are united to Christ, no amount of good work can earn God’s favor and no amount of bad work can forfeit God’s favor
Jesus came not to angrily strip away our freedom but to affectionately strip away our slavery to lesser things so we might become truly free
The irony of the gospel is that we truly perform better when we focus less on our performance for Jesus & more on Jesus' performance for us
The gospel tells us that what God has done for us in Christ is infinitely more important than anything we do for him.
The world says the more independent you become, the freer you'll be; the gospel says the more dependent you become, the freer you'll be
The Gospel frees us from trying to impress people, prove ourselves to people, and make people think we're something that we're not.
Isn’t it ironic that while God’s treatment of us depends on Christ’s performance, our treatment of others depends on their performance?
We need God’s gospel rescue every day and in every way because we are, in the words of John Calvin, "partly unbelievers until we die."
Believing fully the truth that "salvation belongs to the Lord" means that you place ultimate trust in Christ’s efforts, not your own.
Daily sin requires a daily distribution of God's grace
The hard work of sanctification is the hard work of constantly reorienting ourselves back to our justification.
Grace can be defined as unconditional acceptance granted to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.
The law tells us what God demands from us; the gospel tells us what God in Christ has done for us because we could not meet his demands.
Being justified by God & made acceptable on the basis of Christ's righteousness not only pardons us 4 the past but empowers us 4 the present
Paul never uses the law as a way to motivate obedience; He always uses the gospel.
When you understand God's grace, pain leads to freedom because deep suffering leads to deep surrender!
When we depend on things smaller than Jesus to provide us w/ the security & meaning we long for, God will love us enough to take them away.
The gospel is the good news that God rescues sinners. And since both non-Christians & Christians are sinners, we both need the gospel.
The gospel grants Christians one strength over non-Christians: the strength to admit they’re weak.
The gospel frees us to realize that while we matter, we're not the point.
The Gospel alone can turn us into people who give everything we have because we understand that in Christ we already have everything we need
The gospel isn't just the power of God to save us, it's the power of God to grow us once we're saved.
When we transfer trust from ourselves to Christ, we experience the abundant freedoms that come from not having to measure up.
The gospel makes wise those who know they’re foolish and makes fools out of those who think they’re wise.
It never ceases to amaze me that God's love to those who are in Christ isn't conditioned on how we behave but on how Christ behaved for us.
Sin turns you inward; the gospel turns you outward. Sin enslaves you by making you big. The gospel frees you by making you small.
In the gospel, God comes after us because we need him not because he needs us. Only the gospel can free us to revel in our insignificance.
Mt. Sinai says, "You must do." Mt. Calvary says, "Because you couldn't, Jesus did." Don't run to the wrong mountain for your hiding place.