John Stott Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

  John Stott

  Prayer, Purpose, God's Will

  John Stott (2016). “Reading Romans with John Stott”, p.113, InterVarsity Press

• 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

  Christian, Lying, Community

  John Stott (2012). “The Living Church”, p.15, SPCK

• The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.

  John Stott

  Lying, Church, Purpose

  John Stott (2012). “The Living Church”, p.15, SPCK

• The nations are not gathered in automatically. If God has promised to bless "all the families of the earth," he has promised to do so "through Abraham's seed" (Genesis 12:3, 22:18). Now we are Abraham's seed by faith, and the earth's families will be blessed only if we go to them with the gospel. That is God's plain purpose.

  John Stott

  Christian, Blessed, Purpose

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