John Stott Quotes
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1921-
John Robert Walmsley Stott is a British Christian leader and Anglican clergyman who is noted as a leader of the worldwide evangelical movement. He is famous as one of the principal authors of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974.
Stott was ordained in 1945 and went on to become a curate at All Souls Church, Langham Place (1945-1950) then rector (1950-75). This was the church in which he had grown up, and in which he has spent almost all of his life, aside from a few years spent in Cambridge.
Stott played a central role at two landmark events in the history of British evangelicalism. He was chairing the National Assembly of Evangelicals in 1966, a convention organised by the Evangelical Alliance, when Martyn Lloyd-Jones made an unexpected call for evangelicals to unite together as evangelicals and no longer within their 'mixed' denominations.
 A Christian's freedom from anxiety is not due to some guaranteed freedom from trouble, but to the folly of worry and especially to the confidence that God is our Father, that even permitted suffering is within the orbit of His care. Topics: Anxiety
Source: The Message of the Sermon on the Mount, IVP, 1978, p. 167-168. | | Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable. Topics: Apathy | | We should not ask, "What is wrong with the world?" for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather, we should ask, "What has happened to the salt and light?" Topics: Apathy | | Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us. Topics: Atonement, The Cross | | Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is the initiatory Christian rite, because Spirit-baptism is the initiatory Christian experience. Topics: Baptism
Source: The Baptism and Fullness of the Holy Spirit, Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press, 1964, p. 28. | | 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. Topics: Christ
Source: Between Two Worlds, p. 154. | |
| | The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified. So the community of the cross is a community of celebration, a eucharistic community, ceaselessly offering to God through Christ the sacrifice of our praise and thanksgiving. The Christian life is an unending festival. And the festival we keep, now that our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed for us, is a joyful celebration of his sacrifice, together with a spiritual feasting upon it. Topics: Christians, Community, The Cross | | Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it. Topics: Commitment
Source: HIS, Oct. 1975, Christianity Today, v. 36, n. 14. | | The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them. Topics: Compassion
Source: The Message of the Sermon on the Mount, IVP, 1978, p. 41. | | It was your great American wit, Mark Twain, who once said, "Man is the only animal that blushes, and the only animal that needs to." We are ashamed, are we not, of things we've done in the past? Nobody is free who is unforgiven. Instead of being able to look God in the face or to look one another in the face, we want to run away and hide when our conscience troubles us. Topics: Conscience
Source: The Up-to-the-Minute Relevance of the Resurrection, Preaching Today, Tape 79. | | Good conduct arises out of good doctrine. Topics: Doctrine | | 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 no other choice. Topics: Evangelism, Authority, Choices |
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