Tolerance is not a spiritual gift; it is the distinguishing mark of postmodernism; and sadly, it has permeated the very fiber of Christianity. Why is it that those who have no biblical convictions or theology to govern and direct their actions are tolerated and the standard or truth of God’s Word rightly divided and applied is dismissed as extreme opinion or legalism?
John Stott (Author, 1921 – 2011)
Christians who neglect the Bible simply do not mature.
John Stott (Author, 1921 – 2011)
Without the Holy Spirit, Christian discipleship would be inconceivable, even impossible. There can be no life without the life-giver, no understanding without the Spirit of truth, no fellowship without the unity of the Spirit, no Christlikeness of character apart from His fruit, and no effective witness without His power. As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.
John Stott (Author, 1921 – 2011)
God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.
John Stott (Author, 1921 – 2011)
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.
John Stott (Author, 1921 – 2011)
Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the prevailing culture instead of developing a Christian counter-culture.
John Stott (Author, 1921 – 2011)
For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God [Gen. 3:1-7], while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man [2 Cor. 5:21]. Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God deserves to be; God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
John Stott (Author, 1921 – 2011)
The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God’s will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.
John Stott (Author, 1921 – 2011)
Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
John Stott (Author, 1921 – 2011)
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)