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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.

John Stott

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John Stott
Age: 90 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 27
Died: 2011
Died: July 27
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John Robert Walmsley Stott
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Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.
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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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A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.
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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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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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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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Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.
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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 church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.
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God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
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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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In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?
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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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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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There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God.
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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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Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.
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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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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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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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