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Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through 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
Writer
London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
Grace
Jesus
Christ
Stooping
Giving
Generously
Stoops
Rescue
Loving
Coming

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The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.
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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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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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