What do you think of this quote from Tullian Tchividjian?

I love this quote!

Tullian is not saying that it is our understanding that LEADS Christ to be Savior (or not), for we can in NO way diminish the greatness of God. I am reminded of the CS Lewis quote: "A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

What Tullian IS saying [imho] is that we cannot UNDERSTAND Him as a Savior until we realize that we are in need of one! Consider this analogy: let's say your father is a doctor. As a child, you only understand him to be your father. However, on the day you become sick, you realize him to ALSO be a doctor.

We have a Heavenly Father that we need to realize is also a "doctor". In order to realize this, we first need to recognize we are sick and in need of His healing. The more sick we realize we are, the greater the doctor we will seek.

What this says to me is we need to make a realization before we can hope to experience salvation.

The prodigal son parable is a perfect example.

What is the difference between the prodigal son eating food that he is feeding to the pigs and the one who realizes his poverty or error, or sin if you will, and turns back to the Father. In that moment, the outer is not different. It is the inner realization that differentiates the prodigal before and after turning toward the father.

What was not a stumbling block for the prodigal should not be our stumbling block either. The prodigal did not have to overcome his mistakes in leaving the father's house or blowing his inheritance or living like a profligate or his poverty of spirit. He had only to do one thing, to realize that his home in his Father's house was always there and even if he was only a slave in his father's house, he was far better off than he was as the prodigal.

So after the realization, the father was running out to greet him. It wasn't even a journey in space in time, he simply realized his oneness, his connection with the house of his Father and he was with the Father.

If we impose conditions on our forgiveness, we are bound by them. If we do like the prodigal did and realize our oneness with the Father, then all conditions have no power over us. The Master Jesus put it this way: "though your sins be as scarlet, in Christ, [in the realization of our oneness with Love,] they are white as snow."

Jesus, or that which he had realized as his Self, means something unique to each one of us. Just as Jesus visited his disciples after the resurrection, the Christ spirit, which he knew to be the true identity of all, comes to us and washes away our misconceptions in an instant.

If you ever were in a car crash, you may have experienced how time slows down. Our awareness intensifies to the smallest moment. When we awaken from the mortal sleep, the prodigal state, everywhere we turn is a reminder we are in our Father's house right now.

That may or may not be what you were asking for, but that is what I can offer.

He is absolutely 100% right. I should know because to this day I still need a savior. A person that thinks in his heart that he is ok, is never going to repent of his or her sins. When you seek me with your whole heart you shall find Me. The Holy Spirit comes into your heart when you mean business with God. Don't think because you said the sinners prayer that is all it takes, no! The Holy Spirit comes after a while of seeking Him, and you must show you truly mean business with God, than he comes and eats with you drinks with you. God says I will never leave you; unless you go off and leave him. But remember He is always waiting for you to repent and come back to Him. Now if you are pricked in your heart by this message, than it means it is for you? For His Glory, Anna

Always remember to be very careful about what you read or who you listen to. 2 Peter 2:1-3 says, "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that brought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgments now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."

I am not saying whether this individual is neither right or wrong

with what he's explaining in this sermon and I know already that we are great sinners and when I do sin, I always ask God to forgive me. I am just very picky with comparing what the Word of God says to what another theological book says or another supposedly Christian says and check to see if they mean the same as what the Bible explains.

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I take it as "to whom much has been forgiven, loves much" - there's no real gratitude for forgiveness unless you understood your previous condition in depth.