John Stott
John Stott
John Robert Walmsley Stott CBEwas an English Christian leader and Anglican cleric who was noted as a leader of the worldwide Evangelical movement. He was one of the principal authors of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974. In 2005, Time magazine ranked Stott among the 100 most influential people in the world...
friday jesus crosses
The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.
pride hazards chiefs
The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.
love-is hard-love truth-is
Truth without love is too hard; love without truth is too soft.
organization needs spirit
What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.
humility suffering church
These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what Christ desires to find in His churches as He walks among them.
jesus ambition men
The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.
essence sides apostasy
The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier.
mystical-experiences people firsts
...The first and great evidence of our walking by the Spirit or being filled with the Spirit is not some private mystical experience of our own, but our practical relationships of love with other people.
christian focus doe
No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.
jesus kings church
Scripture is the royal scepter by which King Jesus rules his church
grace function offers
Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers.
ambition inappropriate cherish
There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.
prayer bending way
Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.
god-love christ holy
At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.