What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.
John Stott (Author, 1921 – 2011)
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John Stott (Development)
At every step of our Christian development and in every sphere of our Christian discipleship, pride is the greatest enemy and humility our greatest friend.
John Stott (Author, 1921 – 2011)
John Stott (God)
God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.
John Stott (Author, 1921 – 2011)
John Stott (Incompatible)
Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony.
John Stott (Author, 1921 – 2011)
John Stott (Church)
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.
John Stott (Author, 1921 – 2011)
John Stott (The Cross)
Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, ‘I am here because of you. It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.’ Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross.
John Stott (Author, 1921 – 2011)
John Stott (Repent)
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgments instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the thunderclap of God’s, then indeed he will not speak to us and we shall only be confirmed in our own prejudices. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.
John Stott (Author, 1921 – 2011)
John Stott (Leads)
The Spirit of God leads the people of God to submit to the Word of God.
John Stott (Author, 1921 – 2011)
John Stott (Greatness)
Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.
John Stott (Author, 1921 – 2011)
John Stott (Authority)
The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.
John Stott (Author, 1921 – 2011)