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God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.

John Stott

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John Stott
Age: 90 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 27
Died: 2011
Died: July 27
Anglican Priest
Author
Missionary
Theologian
Writer
London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
Intends
Reflect
Creator
Creation
Care
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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Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.
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Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.
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...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.
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Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.
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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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God does not love us because Christ died for us Christ died for us because God loved us.
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There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.
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Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.
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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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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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