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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.

John Stott

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John Stott
Age: 90 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 27
Died: 2011
Died: July 27
Anglican Priest
Author
Missionary
Theologian
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London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
Spirit
Come
Pentecost
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Never
Came
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A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.
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We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
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It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.
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The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.
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The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.
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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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Although we have responsibilities to others, we are primarily accountable to God. It is before him that we stand, and to him that one day we must give an account. We should not therefore rate human opinion too highly.
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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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Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.
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