Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that Christianity offers hope and redemption to those who struggle with their flaws rather than just improving the already 'good' individuals.
This quote by Tullian Tchividjian highlights a fundamental aspect of Christianity: it is not merely a moral improvement system for already decent people but rather a source of hope and guidance for those who acknowledge their shortcomings. It suggests that Christianity provides comfort and acceptance to individuals who fail to meet moral standards, acknowledging that everyone struggles and needs grace.
In practice
During a church sermon discussing grace and forgiveness.
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 theyβre walking away from Jesus, but because the church has walked away from Jesus.
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.
Grief, of course, is not something that operates according to a specific time frame, and it seems cold to suggest otherwise. Yet when we do not grasp that God is present in pain, we eventually insist on victory or, worse, blame the sufferer for not "getting over it" fast enough. This is more than a failure to extend compassion; it's an exercise in cruelty.
Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.
You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold.
Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways it's the impact of living in a digital environment, and in other ways it's just really what happens when you stop leaning so forward to the millennium and you finally arrive there.
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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