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The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.

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
Theologian
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London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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Afterthought
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Eternal
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Church

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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 chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.
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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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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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At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
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The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.
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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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Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.
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Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear the penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save.
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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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God continues to speak through what He has spoken.
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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
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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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God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.
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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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Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.
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