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...
use enough should
Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.
jesus jobs ambition
When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.
believe voice people
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
doctrine arise
Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.
christian mind development
Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites and expects us to explore His double revelation, in nature and Scripture, with the minds He has given us, and to go on in the development of a Christian mind to apply His marvellous revealed truth to every aspect of the modern and post-modern world.
jesus christianity crosses
There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of Jesus.
generosity stewardship greater
We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.
heart people arise
Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global people of a global God.
christian true-identity identity
When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity.
circles order may
If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they may worship him too. Thus worship leads to witness, and witness in its turn to worship, in a perpetual circle.
waiting church needs
We do not need to wait for the Holy Spirit to come: he came on the day of Pentecost. He has never left the church.
generosity giver acceptable
A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.
two persecution clash
Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.
mean good-work salvation
Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.