I received an early copy of Tullian Tchividjian’s latest book, Jesus + Nothing = Everything and have just now gotten around to finishing it. It lived up to it’s hype. I found it to be refreshing and invigorating. This book bleeds the gospel and grace and a reader can help but walk away feeling refreshed.
I was concerned going into the book that it may be wrought with the nastiness that surrounded his attempted ouster at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. Instead, what I found was a book that focused on the gospel lessons that Tchividjian learned through that difficult time in his life. He shows how he became aware that he was dependent, not upon the gospel, but upon the approval of others and the success of his own ministry. Pastor Tullian traces his discoveries through the book of Colossians with personal stories and other anecdotes intertwined. One can’t help but see the impact that the gospel and the writings of men like Michael Horton has had on Tchividjian’s life.
He writes,
My passion, as a preacher and a pastor and a Christian, is to show others how the gospel of grace really speaks with practical hope into everything that fallen people will face in this broken world. My goal is to make real for others, at their point of deepest need, the truth of what Jesus did.
His passion, as spelled out above, was certainly fulfilled in this book. I better understand the gospel and its power in my own life as result of reading this book and would commend it to all.
