Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so. John Stott More Quotes by John Stott More Quotes From John Stott 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 understanding christian character No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart. John Stott doe heart men God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us. John Stott god-love doe christ 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 community christian lying We are sent into the world, like Jesus, to serve. For this is the natural expression of our love for our neighbors. We love. We go. We serve. John Stott expression world jesus Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most. John Stott gods-will determine Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it. John Stott conservative should christian Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience. John Stott obedience greatness kingdoms Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ. John Stott grace giving jesus A man who loves his wife will love her letters and her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus, we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of him. John Stott christian men jesus The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us. John Stott fire love-is fall Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear the penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save. John Stott earth men jesus These then are the marks of the ideal Church - love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what Christ desires to find in His churches as He walks among them. John Stott church humility suffering Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony John Stott together may children We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess. John Stott money light enemy The Spirit of God leads the people of God to submit to the Word of God. John Stott submit spirit people It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size. John Stott size crosses feet Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his. John Stott bending prayer way When we look at the cross we see the justice, love, wisdom and power of God. It is not easy to decide which is the most luminously revealed, whether the justice of God in judging sin, or the love of God in bearing the judgment in our place, or the wisdom of God in perfectly combining the two, or the power of God in saving those who believe. For the cross is equally an act, and therefore a demonstration, of God’s justice, love, wisdom and power. The cross assures us that this God is the reality within, behind and beyond the universe. John Stott justice-of-god believe reality 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 pride humility christian
