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  We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

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  Christian, Vision, Missionary

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• Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.

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  Use, Enough, Should

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• Christianity is in its very essence a resurrection religion. The concept of resurrection lies at its heart. If you remove it, Christianity is destroyed.

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  Lying, Heart, Essence

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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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• The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

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  Friday, Jesus, Crosses

  John Stott, Christopher J. H. Wright (2015). “Christian Mission in the Modern World”, p.72, InterVarsity Press

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• In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?

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  Pain, Real, World

  John Stott (2013). “Through the Bible, Through the Year: Daily Reflections from Genesis to Revelation”, p.269, Candle Books

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• We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.

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  Country, Mean, Religion

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• Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.

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  Grace, Care, Rescue

  John Stott (2013). “Christ in Conflict: Lessons from Jesus and His Controversies”, p.97, InterVarsity Press

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• If we truly worship God, acknowledging and adoring his infinite worth, we find ourselves impelled to make him known to others, in order that they may worship him too. Thus worship leads to witness, and witness in its turn to worship, in a perpetual circle.

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  Order, Circles, May

  John Stott (1992). “The contemporary Christian: an urgent plea for double listening”

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• 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.

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  Waiting, Church, Needs

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• 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.

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  Men, Speech, Down And

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• The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has he become our Father but every other Christian believer in the world, whatever his nation or denomination, has become our brother or sister in Christ. But it is no good supposing that membership of the universal Church of Christ is enough; we must belong to some local branch of it. Every Christian's place is in a local church. sharing in its worship, its fellowship, and its witness.

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  Christian, Brother, Father

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• Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

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  Humble, Hands, Leader

  John R. W. Stott (1985). “Involvement: Social and sexual relationships in the modern world”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.

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  Judgment, Christ

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

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• ... what I believe to be one of the major tragedies in the Church today. Namely, that evangelicals are biblical, but not contemporary, while liberals are contemporary but not biblical, and almost nobody is building bridges and relating the biblical text to the modern context

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  Believe, Biblical, Bridges

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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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• Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.

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  Heart, Perfection, God Love

  John Stott, Alister E. McGrath (2006). “The Cross of Christ”, p.206, InterVarsity Press

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• All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name.

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  Intelligent, Names, Worship

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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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• 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.

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  Believe, Heaven, Church

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• Envy is the reverse side of a coin called vanity - Nobody is ever envious of others who is not first proud of himself.

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  Vanity, Envy, Coins

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, p.57, InterVarsity Press

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• The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

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  Pride, Hazards, Chiefs

  John R. W. Stott (1985). “Involvement: Social and sexual relationships in the modern world”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.

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  Mean, Good Work, Salvation

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Ephesians”, p.1, InterVarsity Press

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• 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.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Sacrifice

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

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• 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.

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  Christian, Focus, Community

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

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