“God must speak to us before we have any liberty to speak to him. He must disclose to us who he is before we can offer him what we are in acceptable worship. The worship of God is always a response to the Word of God. Scripture wonderfully directs and enriches our worship.” SpeakPrayerLibertyOffersWorshipResponseScriptureWord Of GodAcceptable Book:The contemporary Christian: an urgent plea for double listening Source: The contemporary Christian: an urgent plea for double listening
“We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgments instead. If we come to Scripture with our minds made up, expecting to hear from it only an echo of our own thoughts and never the thunderclap of God's, then indeed he will not speak to us and we shall only be confirmed in our own prejudices. We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.” IfsWayNeedsMindMadeSometimesSpeakSecurityBehaviorJudgmentPrejudicePatternsScriptureWord Of GodExpectingEchoesRepentComplacencySanctificationHaughtyMind Made Up Author:John Stott
“I believe that to preach or to expound the scripture is to open up the inspired text with such faithfulness and sensitivity that God’s voice is heard and His people obey Him” PeopleBelieveI BelieveVoiceHeardInspiredScriptureSensitivityFaithfulness Author:John Stott
“Our claim is that God has revealed Himself by speaking; that this divine (or God-breathed) speech has been written down and preserved in Scripture; and that Scripture is, in fact, God's Word written, which therefore is true and reliable and has divine authority over men.” MenHas BeensFactsWrittenDivineSpeechAuthorityClaimsDown AndScripture Author:John Stott
“We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its judgment instead.” WayNeedsSometimesChristianJudgmentBibleScriptureRepentHaughty Author:John Stott
“God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.” KnowsWayKnowingScripture Author:John Stott
“The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name.” NamesNationsChristNewsSakeScriptureObedienceGood News Book:The Message of Romans Source: The Message of Romans
“Don'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.” WorldMindMadeChristianRememberGivenModernGoes OnDevelopmentAspectCriticalScriptureRationalPostsRevelationsFacultyNeglectInvitesModern WorldGod ImageMarvellous Author:John Stott
“Scripture is the royal scepter by which King Jesus rules his church” JesusChurchKingsScriptureRoyal Author:John Stott
“It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.” ChristianLife IsImpossibleScriptureChristian LifeExaggeration Author:John Stott
“I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.” WorldSometimesPainVoiceModernCryListeningDespairScriptureMinistryModern WorldVoice Of God Author:John Stott
