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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
Scripture
Impossible
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Without
Life
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The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.
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There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for 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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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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Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.
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God continues to speak through what He has spoken.
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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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Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.
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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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Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.
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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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We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.
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At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.
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Every Christian should be both conservative and radical conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.
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Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.
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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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Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.
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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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