A quick one from Tullian Tchividjian’s impassioned introduction to One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World. Couldn’t be more excited that Tullian will be speaking at our Houston Conference next week!
It often seems that the Good News of God’s grace has been tragically hijacked by an oppressive religious moralism that is all about rules, rules, and more rules. Doing more, trying harder, self-help, getting better, and fixing, fixing, fixing—ourselves, our kids, our spouses, our friends, our enemies, our culture, our world. Christianity is perceived as being a vehicle for good behavior and clean living—and the judgments that result from them—rather than the only recourse for those who have failed over and over and over again…
I do not mean to imply that Christians don’t believe in grace. It is just that we have a hard time with grace alone. As Max Lucado recently observed, “It wasn’t that [certain Judean Christians who Paul chastised in Acts 15] didn’t believe in grace at all. They did. They believed in grace a lot. They just didn’t believe in grace alone.”
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Gotta love Tullian. I have found his recent works a great transition for the grace-a-lot people to begin to grasp grace alone. It is then that I can introduce them to mbird where they become giddy with the hilarity of the scandalous grace of God. So thankful my family found you after being ravaged in a fundamental group for many years. We have been brought to tears and laughter through many of your articles and essays. I never would have thought we could have had this renewed love for people through the preaching of grace. Thanks again! Prayers and blessings to all.