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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

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John Stott
Age: 90 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 27
Died: 2011
Died: July 27
Anglican Priest
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Missionary
Theologian
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London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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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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Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.
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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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At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
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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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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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God continues to speak through what He has spoken.
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God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
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For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
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Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear the penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save.
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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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Every Christian should be both conservative and radical conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.
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If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.
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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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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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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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It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.
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Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet they cannot live together in harmony
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