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...
greatness worship speak
If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.
heart thinking hands
The question is not so much what the hand is doing (passing over some cash or a check) but what the heart is thinking while the hand is doing it.
our-love care creation
God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.
taken people reason-why
The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.
strong thrones speak
The other gods were strong; but thou wast weak; they rode, but thou didst stumble to a throne; But to our wounds only God's wounds can speak, And not a god has wounds, but thou alone.
sight christ-on-the-cross sin
The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.
christian spiritual cutting
Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind that God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual superficiality and cut ourselves off from many of the riches of God’s grace.
christian self world
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.
humble hands leader
Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.
believe law achievement
The law requires works of human achievement; the gospel requires faith in Christ's achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey; the gospel brings promises and bids us believe.
church turns spread
The gospel creates the church, which spreads the gospel, which creates more churches, which in turn spread the gospel further ad infinitum.
sacrifice men deserve
God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
jesus doubt news
If we love our neighbor we shall without doubt tell him the good news of Jesus. But equally if we truly love our neighbor we shall not stop there.
strong
We are to be strong in faith, and soft in love.