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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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London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we deserve in order to bring us the forgiveness we do not deserve. On the cross divine mercy and justice were equally expressed and eternally reconciled. God's holy love was 'satisfied.'
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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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Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.
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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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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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What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.
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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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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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Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.
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Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.
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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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Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.
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The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.
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Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.
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Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.
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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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We are to be strong in faith, and soft in love.
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