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The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh biblical scrutiny and, if necessary, reform.
John Stott
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John Stott
Age: 90 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 27
Died: 2011
Died: July 27
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John Robert Walmsley Stott
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At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
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Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
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There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.
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At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we deserve in order to bring us the forgiveness we do not deserve. On the cross divine mercy and justice were equally expressed and eternally reconciled. God's holy love was 'satisfied.'
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In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?
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Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet they cannot live together in harmony
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The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum.
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The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.
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Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.
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It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.
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Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global people of a global God.
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If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.
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Every Christian should be both conservative and radical conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.
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Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.
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The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.
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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.
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God does not love us because Christ died for us Christ died for us because God loved us.
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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.
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It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.
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Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner coherence, issuing in ethical conduct, resonating with the contemporary world and concerned for the greater glory of God.
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