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The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.
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
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London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.
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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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We are to be strong in faith, and soft in love.
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Truth without love is too hard love without truth is too soft.
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Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.
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All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.
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The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.
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Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
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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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Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.
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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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Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.
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A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.
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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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A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on
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God continues to speak through what He has spoken.
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Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.
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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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Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear the penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save.
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Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.
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