Stay up to date with the latest Christian news! This is not just about a single tweet. Now, Tullian is telling his supporters that “both my wife and I are heartbroken over our actions and we ask you to pray for us and our family.” Many on Twitter have been supportive of Tullian, and he also has expressed multiple messages where he … Now, of course, God the Holy Spirit encourages us in those moments to choose to follow Christ and not give in to any particular temptation. You are attacking him for saying things not even in that simple statement. When I choose not to sin, It is I, not God in me, who is choosing to say no to sin.

Therefore it is true on it’s face. Only someone who’s completely unfamiliar with the song from which that line is taken could misunderstand that tweet to have meant “don’t grow in Jesus”. I may not have been a serial killer, but I sure was a drunk and a fornicator and a drug addict and TOTALLY convinced of my salvation.

Both God and you are involved. Inviting Tchividjian to preach at Leave A Mark Church is not only disrespectful to the Presbyterian Church of America which has made a (rightful) decision of discipline toward him, it’s disrespectful to all those who have been taken advantage of by clergy. He’s not in any way a false teacher or heretic.

Tullian Tchividjian, the Rev. We have to say yes, God doesn’t say yes for us. and don’t think you work sanctification either. B4B, do you allow any credit for ones own sanctification? Amen.

Take heed unto yourself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this you shall both save yourself, and them that hear you” (1 Timothy 4:13, 16). That’s what I believe. I become more like Jesus Christ because I choose to obey him. It appears Tullian doesn’t want you to mature in Christ. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. What happened was my heart was changed BY GOD. I know there are many who will view our welcoming Tullian and his family, with joy.

That will not stop him from taking the pulpit of a Columbus church today and tomorrow. This ‘pastor’ is not a mere miscreant muttering  in some dark corner.

Just the opposite, actually. The testimony of Scripture is that sanctification (being made holy) is synergistic. 2 Peter 3:18.

However, Jesus Christ is our Righteousness in Justification, Sanctification and Glorification. Follow the links. F our years after a sex scandal prompted him to depart from Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Tullian Tchividjian, grandson to Billy Graham, has again assumed the pulpit.Now, he is preaching an alternative approach to the faith that he calls “Upside Down Christianity.” Since I last wrote about him in 2015, Tchividjian’s life has taken many turns. "The statement reflected my husband's opinions but not my own. This is how we know we are in Him: Whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Jesus did.”, Pingback: Witnessing the Fall of Tullian Tchividjian as a Former Church Member | Little Utopia. God expects us to live a life of morality, integrity, and love. That is a lot of vitriol towards a brother in Christ.

Just as we are not saved by our good works, once wee are saved, the good works that count toward sanctification are also powered by grace. Joel your right on this one, I detected his antinomianism right away, he is preaching a gospel which teaches stop trying to be holy, you don’t have to do that, that is why Jesus died. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies.

It is through the means of Grace that God works in us to make us more and more like Christ. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do his good pleasure. He doesn’t want you to do anything, just continue ‘just as you are’ – and he calls that sanctification!? Read with this proper context in mind, the tweet is absolutely true – and biblical, at that! ( Log Out /  Cruise through life ‘just as you are.’ That’s what the man is teaching. IT WAS ME. Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. The pastorate is a position of trust, and if violated, should hold long term and grave consequences.

According to Tchividjian, none of that is necessary. American Standard Version (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1995), 1 Co 1:30–31. While I would agree that we participate and are responsible to “know”, “reckon”, and “present” certain things (see Romans 6), and I would agree that our sanctification is synergistic rather than monergistic as is our salvation, it is the spirit of God that causes me to will and do what pleases God, and not my natural flesh. As the “Mission” page on the church’s website puts it: It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. The Christian Post reported on Tchividjian, recently writing a post demanding that Christians show grace to fallen pastors, claiming that it was “sinful” to remember someone’s scandals. Please respect the privacy of my family at this time, thank you. I would offer to Jum, who I believe might be taking too much credit for his sanctification, Philippians 2:13.

Most recently, Pulpit & Pen has covered Tchividjian claiming the Gospel is “immoral.”. Neither of them shows any ability to earn money except at the hands of pew-sitters who willing to turn over their hard-earned money to two dudes, who in my opinion, have no business playing church. Im just glad that there are a very few left who not only ask for the old paths but walk there in.