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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.

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
Writer
London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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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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Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins it is itself the essence of all sin.
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...The first and great evidence of our walking by the Spirit or being filled with the Spirit is not some private mystical experience of our own, but our practical relationships of love with other people.
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God does not love us because Christ died for us Christ died for us because God loved us.
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We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.
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We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.
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The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.
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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.
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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 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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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
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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 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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