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...
church principles deaf
A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.
church body spirit
As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.
spiritual jesus father
We cannot be content with an evangelism which does not lead to the drawing of converts into the church, nor with a church order whose principle of cohesion is a superficial social camaraderie instead of a spiritual fellowship with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
christian pain exercise
The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.
heart perfection god-love
Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.
christian rights views
[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets itself against the social injustices which insult God the Creator, seeks to protect human beings from oppression and longs to liberate them… it protests against every authoritarian regime, whether of the left or of the right, which discriminates against minorities, denies people their civil rights, forbids the free expression of opinions or imprisons people for their views alone.
pride essence firsts
Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.
holiness might sin
God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
judging comfort savior
It is a great comfort to know that our judge will be none other than our savior.
names news sake
The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name.
christian blessed purpose
The nations are not gathered in automatically. If God has promised to bless "all the families of the earth," he has promised to do so "through Abraham's seed" (Genesis 12:3, 22:18). Now we are Abraham's seed by faith, and the earth's families will be blessed only if we go to them with the gospel. That is God's plain purpose.
country mean religion
We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.
waiting church needs
We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.
generosity giver acceptable
A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.