“Indeed, an honest and humble acknowledgment of the evil in our flesh, even after the new birth, is the first step to holiness. To speak quite plainly, some of us are not leading holy lives for the simple reason that… — John R.W. Stott Copy Share Image
“The gift of singleness is more a vocation than an empowerment, although to be sure God is faithful in supporting those He calls.” — John R.W. Stott Copy Share Image
“The New Testament uses five main Greek words for sin, which together portray its various aspects, both passive and active. The commonest is hamartia, which depicts sin as a missing of the target, the failure to attain a goal. Adikia is ‘unrighteousness’ or ‘iniquity’, and ponēria is evil of a vicious or degenerate kind. Both these terms seem to speak… — John R.W. Stott Copy Share
“So then, according to Jesus, the ‘evils’ which we think, say and do are not due primarily to our environment, nor are they bad… — John R.W. Stott Copy Share Image
“What God said to Abraham was not 'Obey this law and I will bless you', but 'I will bless you; believe my promise'.” — John R.W. Stott Copy Share Image
“Thomas Cranmer in his ‘Homily of Salvation’ explained that three things had to go together in our justification: on God’s part ‘his great mercy… — John R.W. Stott Copy Share Image
“We “receive the Spirit,” he insisted, not because of any good works of obedience that we may have done, but “by hearing with faith,” that is, by hearing and believing the gospel (Gal 3:2). More simply, “we . . . receive the promise of the Spirit through faith” (Gal 3:14). And the context makes it clear that this “faith” is… — John R.W. Stott Copy Share
“Nowadays the really great mind is thought to be both broad and open – broad enough to absorb every fresh idea which is presented… — John R.W. Stott Copy Share Image
“The power to save lies in the one who is gazed upon, not the one who does the looking.” — John R.W. Stott Copy Share Image
“There is much shallowness and levity among us. Prophets and psalmists would probably say of us that ‘there is no fear of God before their eyes’. In public worship our habit is to slouch or squat; we do not kneel nowadays, let alone prostrate ourselves in humility before God. It is more characteristic of us to clap our hands with… — John R.W. Stott Copy Share
“To say that somebody ‘is not responsible for his actions’ is to demean him or her as a human being. It is part of the glory of being human that we are held responsible for our actions. Then, when we also acknowledge our sin and guilt, we receive God’s forgiveness, enter into the joy of his salvation, and so become… — John R.W. Stott Copy Share
“It is that the promise of the “gift” or “baptism” of the Spirit is to as many as the Lord our God calls. The… — John R.W. Stott Copy Share Image
“We state and commend the faith only in so far as we go out and put ourselves inside the doubts of the doubters, the… — John R.W. Stott Copy Share Image
