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

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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
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Creation
Care
Love
Intends
Reflect

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God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
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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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Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.
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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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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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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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A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on
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God continues to speak through what He has spoken.
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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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Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.
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Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.
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There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.
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Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.
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There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.
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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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The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ
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A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.
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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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Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience.
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Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.
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