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Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.

John Stott

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John Stott
Age: 90 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 27
Died: 2011
Died: July 27
Anglican Priest
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Missionary
Theologian
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London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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Salvation

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An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community.
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It is a great comfort to know that our judge will be none other than our savior.
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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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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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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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At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.
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We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
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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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I believe that to preach or to expound the scripture is to open up the inspired text with such faithfulness and sensitivity that God’s voice is heard and His people obey Him
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Truth without love is too hard love without truth is too soft.
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Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.
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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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