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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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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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God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.
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Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and stewardship. Did God make the world? Does he sustain it? Has he committed its resources to our care? His personal concern for his own creation should be sufficient to inspire us to be equally concerned.
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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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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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The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh biblical scrutiny and, if necessary, reform.
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Every Christian should be both conservative and radical conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.
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A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially to the confidence that God is our Father, that even permitted suffering is within the orbit of His care.
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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 truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.
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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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Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.
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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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Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.
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God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
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There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.
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Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.
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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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The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.
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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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