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A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.

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
Deaf
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Dead
Principles
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Unalterable

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