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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.

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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Missionary
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London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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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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It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.
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So, because in no other person but Jesus of Nazareth did God first become human (in his birth), then bear our sins (in his death), then conquer death (in his resurrection) and then enter his people (by his Spirit), he is uniquely able to save sinners. Nobody else has his qualifications.
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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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The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.
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The law requires works of human achievement the gospel requires faith in Christ's achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey the gospel brings promises and bids us believe.
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A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.
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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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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 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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The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.
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God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
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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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All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name.
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Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.
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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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Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.
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The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.
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Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.
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