John Stott Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.

  John Stott

  Christian, Decision, Following Jesus

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Galatians”, p.98, SPCK

• 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

  Christian, Easter, Christ On The Cross

  John Stott, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (2009). “The Cross”, p.15, InterVarsity Press

• We live and die; Christ died and lived!

  John Stott

  Easter, Life Changing, Sunday

• The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.

  John Stott

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  John Stott (2013). “Christ in Conflict: Lessons from Jesus and His Controversies”, p.85, InterVarsity Press

• The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has he become our Father but every other Christian believer in the world, whatever his nation or denomination, has become our brother or sister in Christ. But it is no good supposing that membership of the universal Church of Christ is enough; we must belong to some local branch of it. Every Christian's place is in a local church. sharing in its worship, its fellowship, and its witness.

  John Stott

  Christian, Brother, Father

• Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.

  John Stott

  Jesus, Giving, Grace

  John Stott (1998). “Romans: Encountering the Gospel's Power”, Intervarsity Press

• 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

  Cutting, Gay, Suffering

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Galatians”, p.63, InterVarsity Press

• The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ

  John Stott

  Christian, Jesus, Secret

• At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we deserve in order to bring us the forgiveness we do not deserve. On the cross divine mercy and justice were equally expressed and eternally reconciled. God's holy love was 'satisfied.'

  John Stott

  Order, Justice, God Love

  John Stott, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (2009). “The Cross”, p.67, InterVarsity Press

• The gospel is NOT preached if Christ is not preached.

  John Stott

  Christ, Ifs

  John Stott (2015). “Evangelical Truth”, p.18, SPCK

• 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

  Humility, Suffering, Church

• The major mark of justified believers is joy, especially joy in God himself. We should be the most positive people in the world. For the new community of Jesus Christ is characterized not by a self-centered triumphalism but by a God-centered worship.

  John Stott

  Jesus, Self, People

  John Stott (2016). “Reading Romans with John Stott”, p.86, InterVarsity Press

• The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified. So the community of the cross is a community of celebration, a eucharistic community, ceaselessly offering to God through Christ the sacrifice of our praise and thanksgiving. The Christian life is an unending festival. And the festival we keep, now that our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed for us, is a joyful celebration of his sacrifice, together with a spiritual feasting upon it.

  John Stott

  Christian, Spiritual, Sacrifice

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, InterVarsity Press

• God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.

  John Stott

  Doe, God Love, Christ

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, p.172, InterVarsity Press

• Instead of inflicting upon us the judgment we deserved, God in Christ endured it in our place.

  John Stott

  Judgment, Christ

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, InterVarsity Press

• Faith, Hope & Love. Faith is directed towards God, love towards others (both within the Christian fellowship and beyond it) and hope towards the future, in particular, the glorious coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Similarly, faith rests of the past; love works in the present; hope looks to the future. Every Christian without exception is a believer, a lover and a hoper. Faith, hope and love are three sure evidences of regeneration by the Holy Spirit.

  John Stott

  Christian, Jesus, Past

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Thessalonians”, p.18, SPCK

• 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. Are you filled with the Holy Spirit? He's a missionary Spirit. Do you belong to the church? It's a missionary society. And do you hope to go to heaven when you die? It's a heaven into which the fruits of world mission have been and will be gathered.

  John Stott

  Believe, Heaven, Church

• The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.

  John Stott

  Sight, Christ On The Cross, Sin

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, InterVarsity Press

• So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to God.

  John Stott

  Christian, Jesus, Attitude

• Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order to commend a civilization, an institution or an ideology, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whom they believe to be unique.

  John Stott

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  John Stott (2012). “The Incomparable Christ”, p.9, SPCK

• Circumcision stands for a religion of human achievement, of what man can do by his own good works; Christ stands for a religion of divine achievement, of what God has done through the finished work of Christ.

  John Stott

  Men, Circumcision, Done

  John Stott (2014). “The Message of Galatians”, p.49, InterVarsity Press

• If Christ seldom makes offers without demands, He also seldom makes demands without offers. He offers His strength to enable us to meet His demands.

  John Stott

  Demand, Christ, Offers

• Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.

  John Stott

  Heart, Perfection, God Love

  John Stott, Alister E. McGrath (2006). “The Cross of Christ”, p.206, InterVarsity Press

• At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself.

  John Stott

  God Love, Christ, Holy

  John Stott, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (2009). “The Cross”, p.67, InterVarsity Press

• To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He assures us of God's love for us. He sets us free from guilt because He died for us and from paralyzing fear because He reigns. He gives meaning to marriage and home, work and leisure, personhood and citizenship.

  John Stott

  Home, Self Worth, Reality

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