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...
suffering church firsts
If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.
greatness kingdoms obedience
Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.
intelligent names worship
All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name.
friday lying heart
The concept of substitution lies at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.
feet size crosses
It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.
love-is hard-love truth-is
Truth without love is too hard; love without truth is too soft.
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.
ambition inappropriate cherish
There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.
god-love christ holy
At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
bible christian needs
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgment instead.
intelligent names impossible
Word and worship belong indissolubly to each other. All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name. Therefore, acceptable worship is impossible without preaching. For preaching is making known the name of the Lord, and worship is praising the name of the Lord made known.
holiness might sin
God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
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.