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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.
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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England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.
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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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Although we have responsibilities to others, we are primarily accountable to God. It is before him that we stand, and to him that one day we must give an account. We should not therefore rate human opinion too highly.
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The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.
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Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.
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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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Truth without love is too hard love without truth is too soft.
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The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.
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There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong, historical , cumulative evidence evidence to which an honest person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.
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We are to be strong in faith, and soft in love.
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We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.
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Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.
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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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Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.
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The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.
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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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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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We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.
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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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A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him.
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