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...
taken people reason-why
The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.
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
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 responsibility people
Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and stewardship. Did God make the world? Does he sustain it? Has he committed its resources to our care? His personal concern for his own creation should be sufficient to inspire us to be equally concerned.
people trying reaching
The Bible isn’t about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.
mystical-experiences people firsts
...The first and great evidence of our walking by the Spirit or being filled with the Spirit is not some private mystical experience of our own, but our practical relationships of love with other people.
jesus self people
The major mark of justified believers is joy, especially joy in God himself. We should be the most positive people in the world. For the new community of Jesus Christ is characterized not by a self-centered triumphalism but by a God-centered worship.
people spirit submit
The Spirit of God leads the people of God to submit to the Word of God.
people reason chiefs
The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.
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.
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.