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It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.

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
Exaggeration
Scripture
Impossible
Christian
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It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.
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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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Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.
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The concept of substitution lies at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.
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The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.
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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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Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global people of a global God.
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All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name.
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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
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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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Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins it is itself the essence of all sin.
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There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong, historical , cumulative evidence evidence to which an honest person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.
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Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.
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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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A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.
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Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.
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Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience.
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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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If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.
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