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• 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.

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  Heart, People, Arise

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

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• So, because in no other person but Jesus of Nazareth did God first become human (in his birth), then bear our sins (in his death), then conquer death (in his resurrection) and then enter his people (by his Spirit), he is uniquely able to save sinners. Nobody else has his qualifications.

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  Jesus, People, Able

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• I have never been able to conjure up (as some great Evangelical missionaries have) the appalling vision of the millions who are not only perishing but will inevitably perish. On the other hand... I am not and cannot be a universalist. Between these extremes I cherish and hope the majority of the human race will be be saved. And I have a solid biblical basis for this belief.

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  Biblical, Hands, Race

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• The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.

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  Sight, Christ On The Cross, Sin

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

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• The other gods were strong; but thou wast weak; they rode, but thou didst stumble to a throne; But to our wounds only God's wounds can speak, And not a god has wounds, but thou alone.

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  Strong, Thrones, Speak

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, p.328, InterVarsity Press

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• Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.

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  Powerful, Compassion, Vision

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

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• A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.

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  Church, Principles, Deaf

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• If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.

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  Greatness, Worship, Speak

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• Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner coherence, issuing in ethical conduct, resonating with the contemporary world and concerned for the greater glory of God.

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  Christian, Self, World

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• So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to God.

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  Christian, Jesus, Attitude

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