John Stott
John Stott
John Robert Walmsley Stott CBEwas an English Christian leader and Anglican cleric who was noted as a leader of the worldwide Evangelical movement. He was one of the principal authors of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974. In 2005, Time magazine ranked Stott among the 100 most influential people in the world...
organization needs spirit
What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.
feet size crosses
It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.
christian easter christ-on-the-cross
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.
jesus expression world
We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.
christian vision missionary
We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
christian-inspirational our-love love-grows
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
people reason chiefs
The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.
prayer purpose gods-will
The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.
spiritual biblical tolerance
Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of Christianity. Why is it that those who have no biblical convictions or theology to govern and direct their actions are tolerated and the standard or truth of God's Word rightly divided and applied is dismissed as extreme opinion or legalism?
christian character understanding
Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart from His fruit, and no effective witness without His power. As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.
christian lying community
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.
sacrifice men essence
For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
spiritual patterns complacency
We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.
christian real tree
A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on