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...
essence sides apostasy
The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier.
jesus ambition men
The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.
christ ifs
The gospel is NOT preached if Christ is not preached.
faith trust-in-god trustworthiness
Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
christian jesus believe
The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.
christian tears truth-is
The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.
christian responsibility impossible
Social responsibility becomes an aspect not of Christian mission only, but also of Christian conversion. It is impossible to be truly converted to God without being thereby converted to our neighbor.
humility suffering church
These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what Christ desires to find in His churches as He walks among them.
christian jesus secret
The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ
inspirational success uplifting
The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh biblical scrutiny and, if necessary, reform.
christian jesus doe
Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus.
love-is hard-love truth-is
Truth without love is too hard; love without truth is too soft.
giving heaven choices
His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us with no other choice.
friday jesus crosses
The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.