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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
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England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.
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The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.
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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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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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Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.
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Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins it is itself the essence of all sin.
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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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An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community.
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A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.
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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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Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.
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Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.
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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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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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It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.
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It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.
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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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God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
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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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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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