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I believe that to preach or to expound the scripture is to open up the inspired text with such faithfulness and sensitivity that God’s voice is heard and His people obey Him

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
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London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.
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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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Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.
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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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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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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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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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The major mark of justified believers is joy, especially joy in God himself. We should be the most positive people in the world. For the new community of Jesus Christ is characterized not by a self-centered triumphalism but by a God-centered worship.
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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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God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
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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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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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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 do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.
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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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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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It is a great comfort to know that our judge will be none other than our savior.
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The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.
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