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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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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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It is a great comfort to know that our judge will be none other than our savior.
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The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum.
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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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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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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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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
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Truth without love is too hard love without truth is too soft.
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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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God continues to speak through what He has spoken.
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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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Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.
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A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on
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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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An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community.
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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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Saving faith is resting faith, the trust which relies entirely on the Savior.
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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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