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My Nashville Statement
It is ironic and possibly prophetic that the (NS) was published the very same day that I released a short film on LGBT people in the church titled I think these two “statements� represent two brands of evangelical approaches to questions about faith, sexuality & gender. These two brands overlap quite a bit; they both agree that marriage is between a man an
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“Grace, on the other hand, means that God is pursuing you. That God forgives you. That God sanctifies you. When you are apathetic toward God, He is never apathetic toward you. When you don’t desire to pray and talk to God, He never grows tired of talking to you. When you forget to read your Bible and listen to God, He is always listening to you. Grace means that your spirituality is upheld by God’s stubborn enjoyment of you.
Charis: God's Scandalous Grace for Us (p. 76).”
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Charis: God's Scandalous Grace for Us (p. 76).”
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“But if we never hug a harlot, befriend a beggar, or forgive our enemy seventy times seven, then we confess grace with our lips but mock it with our lives.”
― Charis: God's Scandalous Grace for Us
― Charis: God's Scandalous Grace for Us
“TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN  The best definition for grace I know comes from Paul Zahl: 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 unlovableâ€�. The cliché definition of grace is “unconditional love.â€� It is a true cliché, for it is a good description of the thing.â€� Let’s go a little further, though. Grace is a love that has nothing to do with you, the beloved. It has everything and only to do with the lover. Grace is irrational in the sense that it has nothing to do with weights and measures. It has nothing to do with my intrinsic qualities or so-called “giftsâ€� (whatever they may be). It reflects a decision on the part of the giver, the one who loves, in relation to the receiver, the one who is loved, that negates any qualifications the receiver may personally holdâ€�. Grace is one-way love.1 Grace doesn’t make demands. It just gives. And from our vantage point, it always gives to the wrong person. We see this over and over again in the Gospels: Jesus is always giving to the wrong people—prostitutes, tax collectors, half-breeds. The most extravagant sinners of Jesus’s day receive His most compassionate welcome. Grace is a divine vulgarity that stands caution on its head.”
― Charis: God's Scandalous Grace for Us
― Charis: God's Scandalous Grace for Us
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