Tullian Tchividjian is coming back with a new edition of his book Jesus + Nothing = Everything. The press release announcing the book just came out and is below. It was released first to Publisher’s Weekly. That publication has a story up about it here.
Fortress Press Brings Best-Selling Author Back to Print
Tullian Tchividjian had sold over 80,000 copies of Jesus + Nothing = Everything when his life and ministry fell apart; now Fortress Press is publishing a new edition of that book.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Tullian Tchividjian, a grandson of Billy Graham, was the pastor of a Florida megachurch when he lost everything in 2015 due to his marital infidelity. When his infidelity surfaced, Tchividjian lost his ministry, and his best-selling book Jesus + Nothing = Everything was taken out of print. After careful consultation with his pastoral counselor and other mentors, Fortress Press is confident that Tchividjian has repented of his past indiscretions and has put himself under the authority of trusted Christian leaders.
“The mission of our organization includes the phrase, ‘to communicate the liberating grace of God,’ and therefore we believe in second chances,” said Tony Jones, senior acquisitions editor at Fortress Press. “None of us is without sin, and Tullian’s message of the radical grace of God is more applicable now than ever—he even needs to hear it himself!”
“Jesus + Nothing = Everything is a book I poured my heart and soul into, and it’s helped a lot of people, including me,” said Tchividjian. “I believe—and need!—the message of this book even more now than when I first wrote it. My wife and I have received hundreds of requests for Jesus+ Nothing = Everything, so I’m extremely grateful that Fortress Press is republishing it.”
Fortress Press plans to release Jesus + Nothing = Everything in Fall 2018, featuring a new introduction from the author, addressing what has happened in his life since the book was originally published and how the message of God’s grace has sustained him over the past three years and continues to sustain him daily.
An interesting blast from the past is to note that the individual who sent this presser is Tony Jones. Jones, no stranger to controversy himself, was once a fellow Patheos blogger and is now the Director of Acquisitions at Fortress Press. Unlike my blog, his is still up at Patheos, although he doesn’t contribute to it. He then moved it here but apparently doesn’t write much there either.
This book was once published by Crossway Books but when the news of Tchividjian’s affairs surfaced, the rights to the book went back to Tchividjian. It has been out of print since then.
spiritualsoundboard.com has been chronologically keeping tract of this and interviewing the victims. Thank her for her work and also on Doug Phillips and Mark Driscoll and Hillsong exposures by [email protected] horrific exposures of child molestation/pedophile and homosexual cover-up also by Tanya Levin.
William Lobdell also very heart felt write “Losing, My Religion; along with Onward Christian Soldier and other writes as former Editor of Religion L.A. Times; Austin Miles writes; The Fleecing of Christianity by Jackie Alnor; Thieves by Trey Smith; Salvation for Sale by Straub, Ten Lies the Church Tells Women/Lies Men Believe-J. Lee Grady; Pagan Christianity (green cover)-Frank Viola .
WE ALL NEED TO RESEARCH WHO FOUNDED AND FUNDED ANY OF THESE REGIMES, MOVEMENTS AS GOD doesn’t get any money nor the homeless, or people in general who funded their regimes as it becomes a Business and they help NO one but themselves and Nepotism Family and Friends. Write from learned absolutely NOTHING in church ever, NO Bible, NO Pray but PREYING on the people for their self-serving Business! Actually learned tremendous Guilt, Condemnation, Criticism, Abuse, Belittling and Berating. Why are we building their self-serving Businesses/Organizations?
Note: Read Church Exiters, Church Brainwashing Articles like 12 Reasons Why Millennials are over the Church by Sam Easton, Coming Out Alive by Beth Cavete,
Jeff Crippen’s article and comments why young people aren’t in Church.
Should that perhaps be spiritualsoundingboard.com ?
I don’t get this at ALL! First, as others have noted, calling his serial adultery “indiscretions” is like saying the Titanic was slightly leaning to portside.
Second, to advertise the book by saying “he even needs to hear it himself” is staggering.
Lastly, I thought Fortress Press was a high level academic press. NT Wright’s mammoth Christian Origins and the Question of God and the like. Wright’s less academic books are published by IVP and others. Why would Fortress want Tchividjian, except some people still drinking the Koolaid will want to buy it?
Tullian + Adultery = New Edition
I have recently been talking with a certain christian artist who owns a recording studio. He has many stories to tell about how exceedingly corrupt the “Christian Music Business” is. His quote, “Only now they have tapped into worship music in such a way, some industry people actually now call it ‘the prostitution of worship music.'” I do not believe that the Christian Book Business is better in any way. To adapt another quote from this man, “there is nothing Christian about the Christian Book Business! It is all business!” Time for a wake-up call.
Jesus is about Himself. All of us have access to His throneroom. We all can buy a Bible and read it for ourselves. We do not need greedy, manipulative, lying, self-serving and self-proclaimed leaders as intermediaries in order to access God and His Truth. We do not need books from best-seller lists or celebrities leaders at all. We need to get to know Jesus for ourselves. All the rest of this is men trying to serve both God and Mammon at the same time. To those who bottom lines are the profits, they have to despise the real Jesus to get there. We should not be feeding this evil with our own money, nor wasting our time with this prostitution both of music and books. Jesus is God and is fully capable of communicating with anyone of His choosing. Let Him do so as you study His books instead of those who are serial-adulterers like TT. It is well documented that he was trying to have affairs with at least seven women at once. One of those women is his current wife. And those seven are just the tip of the iceberg. Those are just the ones who have chosen to go public. Only God knows how many more there were while he was a pastor.
“…the individual who sent this presser is Tony Jones.”
So, it’s obviously a case of birds of a feather…
Indiscretions? Indiscretions! INDISCRETIONS !!! ***** !!!!
I have to admit, I’m not all that impressed with Tullian Tchividjian. Three years doesn’t seem like time enough to consider the harm you did to other people, repent, do your best to fix what you broke, and demonstrate that you can do better. I wonder how his first family feels about his “comeback.”
I have to admit, I’m not all that impressed with Tullian Tchividjian. Three years doesn’t seem like time enough to consider the harm you did to other people, repent, do your best to fix what you broke, and demonstrate that you can do better. I wonder how his first family feels about his “comeback.”
A simply amazing statement in so many ways:
He lost everything!
He has repented of his past “indiscretions”!
“My wife and I…”!
The message of God’s grace has sustained him over the past three years…
I can’t take the time to write out everything that these statements bring to mind. I’ll simply say that it sounds like Tullian’s life verse is Romans 6:1 with the answer in the affirmative. (Also: Do his ex-wife and his kids get to write their own forward to this book to share what the past three years have done to them?)