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The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ

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
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Modern
Secret
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Christian
Relevance
Christ
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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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Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.
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In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?
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We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
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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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We are to be strong in faith, and soft in love.
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Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.
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We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.
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Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet they cannot live together in harmony
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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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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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At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
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For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
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Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.
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What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.
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Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.
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Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.
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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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At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we deserve in order to bring us the forgiveness we do not deserve. On the cross divine mercy and justice were equally expressed and eternally reconciled. God's holy love was 'satisfied.'
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