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...
jesus attitude men
So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to God.
sacrifice men deserve
God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
men circumcision done
Circumcision stands for a religion of human achievement, of what man can do by his own good works; Christ stands for a religion of divine achievement, of what God has done through the finished work of Christ.
christian believe men
Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.
heart men firsts
No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart.
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.
men speech down-and
Our claim is that God has revealed Himself by speaking; that this divine (or God-breathed) speech has been written down and preserved in Scripture; and that Scripture is, in fact, God's Word written, which therefore is true and reliable and has divine authority over men.
jesus men earth
Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear the penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save.
christian jesus men
A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him.
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.
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...
order church inactivity
The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.