When Jesus is truly our Lord, He directs our lives and we gladly obey Him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under His lordship - our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.
John StottThe 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 StottThe chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.
John StottChristian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.
John StottWhat we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit.
John StottDon't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites and expects us to explore His double revelation, in nature and Scripture, with the minds He has given us, and to go on in the development of a Christian mind to apply His marvellous revealed truth to every aspect of the modern and post-modern world.
John Stott