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• Scripture is the royal scepter by which King Jesus rules his church

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  Jesus, Kings, Church

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• The law requires works of human achievement; the gospel requires faith in Christ's achievement. The law makes demands and bids us obey; the gospel brings promises and bids us believe.

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  Believe, Law, Achievement

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Galatians”, p.26, InterVarsity Press

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• It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.

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  Feet, Size, Crosses

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Galatians”, p.63, InterVarsity Press

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• What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.

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  Organization, Needs, Spirit

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• The concept of substitution lies at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.

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  God, Christian, Friday

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, p.159, InterVarsity Press

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• Simplicity is the first cousin of contentment.

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  Cousin, Simplicity, Contentment

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• The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

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  Order, Church, Inactivity

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• The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.

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  Lying, Church, Purpose

  John Stott (2012). “The Living Church”, p.15, SPCK

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• Knowledge is indispensable to Christian life and service. If we do not use the mind that God has given us, we condemn ourselves to spiritual superficiality and cut ourselves off from many of the riches of God’s grace.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Cutting

  John Stott (2013). “Your Mind Matters: The Place of the Mind in the Christian Life”, p.84, InterVarsity Press

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Men, Earth

  John R. W. Stott (1985). “Authentic Jesus”, Intervarsity Pr

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• The gospel is NOT preached if Christ is not preached.

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  Christ, Ifs

  John Stott (2015). “Evangelical Truth”, p.18, SPCK

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• No man has ever appreciated the gospel until the law has first revealed him to himself. It is only against the inky blackness of the night sky that the stars begin to appear, and it is only against the dark background of sin and judgment that the gospel shines forth.

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  Stars, Dark, Night

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Galatians”, p.34, InterVarsity Press

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• The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.

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  People, Atheism, Reason

  John Stott, Greg Scharf (2015). “The Challenge of Preaching”, p.13, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve.

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  Jesus, Expression, World

  John Stott, Christopher J. H. Wright (2015). “Christian Mission in the Modern World”, p.29, InterVarsity Press

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• Faith's only function is to receive what grace offers.

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  Grace, Function, Offers

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, InterVarsity Press

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• Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.

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  Acceptance, Religion, Apathy

  John Stott (2013). “Through the Bible, Through the Year: Daily Reflections from Genesis to Revelation”, p.129, Candle Books

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• Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Giving, Grace

  John Stott (1998). “Romans: Encountering the Gospel's Power”, Intervarsity Press

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• The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.

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  Giving, World, Compass

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• We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.

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  Money, Light, Enemy

  John R. W. Stott (1999). “Our Social and Sexual Revolution: Major Issues for a New Century”, Baker Publishing Group

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• The Bible isn’t about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.

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  People, Trying, Reaching

  John Stott (2012). “Basic Christianity”, p.17, InterVarsity Press

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• 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.

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  Humility, Suffering, Church

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• An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community.

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  Christian, Lying, Community

  John Stott (2012). “The Living Church”, p.15, SPCK

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• Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

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  Christian, Sacrifice, Self

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• 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.

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  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites and expects us to explore His double revelation, in nature and Scripture, with the minds He has given us, and to go on in the development of a Christian mind to apply His marvellous revealed truth to every aspect of the modern and post-modern world.

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  Christian, Mind, Development

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