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...
order church inactivity
The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.
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.
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.
church body spirit
As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.
church principles deaf
A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.
lying church purpose
The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.
jesus kings church
Scripture is the royal scepter by which King Jesus rules his church
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.
suffering church firsts
If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.
believe heaven church
Do we claim to believe in God? He's a missionary God. You tell me you're committed to Christ. He's a missionary Christ. Are you filled with the Holy Spirit? He's a missionary Spirit. Do you belong to the church? It's a missionary society. And do you hope to go to heaven when you die? It's a heaven into which the fruits of world mission have been and will be gathered.
demand christ offers
If Christ seldom makes offers without demands, He also seldom makes demands without offers. He offers His strength to enable us to meet His demands.
powerful compassion vision
Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.
responsibility giving one-day
Although we have responsibilities to others, we are primarily accountable to God. It is before him that we stand, and to him that one day we must give an account. We should not therefore rate human opinion too highly...
home self-worth reality
To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He assures us of God's love for us. He sets us free from guilt because He died for us and from paralyzing fear because He reigns. He gives meaning to marriage and home, work and leisure, personhood and citizenship.