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Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.
John Stott
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John Stott
Age: 90 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 27
Died: 2011
Died: July 27
Anglican Priest
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Missionary
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London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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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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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.
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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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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
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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.
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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.
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At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.
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Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.
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The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.
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We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
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We are to be strong in faith, and soft in love.
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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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Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.
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The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.
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There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.
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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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Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, 'I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.' Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross.
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