The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that… — John Stott Copy Share Image
We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors.… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented… — John Stott Copy Share Image
We should not ask, ‘What is wrong with the world?’ for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, “What… — John Stott Copy Share Image
I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The major mark of justified believers is joy, especially joy in God himself. We should be the most positive people in the… — John Stott Copy Share Image
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.… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Ambitions for self may be quite modest. . . . Ambitions for God, however, if they are to be worthy, can never… — John Stott Copy Share Image
God intends us to penetrate the world. Christian salt has no business to remain snugly in elegant little ecclesiastical salt cellars; our… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating… — John Stott Copy Share
Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global… — John Stott Copy Share
[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets… — John Stott Copy Share
All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousn ess, until we have visited a place called Calvary. It is there, at… — John Stott Copy Share
So there is such a thing as perfect hatred, just as there is such a thing as righteous anger. But it is a hatred… — John Stott Copy Share
“Unless some people are commissioned for the task, there will be no gospel preachers; unless the gospel is preached, sinners will not hear Christ’s… — John Stott Copy Share
“many former sins have become crimes’, so that responsibility for dealing with them has passed from church to state, from priest to policeman (p.50),… — John Stott Copy Share
When we look at the cross we see the justice, love, wisdom and power of God. It is not easy to decide which is… — John Stott Copy Share
If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks… — John Stott Copy Share
There is something inherently inappropriate about cherishing small ambitions for God. — John Stott Copy Share
Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents. — John Stott Copy Share
“A guilty conscience is a great blessing, but only if it drives us to come home.” — John Stott Copy Share
The concept of substitution lies at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God,… — John Stott Copy Share
