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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

John Stott lives.

If you've never heard some of John Stott's prolific and wide-ranging corpus, then it could be time to get going. Here's a guy whose life has been characterised by faithfulness, industry, endeavour and the pursuit of truth. There's a whole lot that's worthy of imitation about Stott, here's but a wee slice of the gold that he has mined:

Our neighbour is neither a body-less soul that we should love only his soul, nor a soul-less body that we should care for its welfare alone. Nor even a body-soul isolated from society. God created man who is my neighbour; a body-soul in community. Therefore, if we love our neighbour as God made him, we must inevitably be concerned for his total welfare: the good of his soul, his body and his community.

2 comments:

Mikey B said...

While I was studying for my theology degree, John Stott became a regular author that I read.

There is a rather good commentary he wrote about the Sermon on the Mount, more detailed than the study book on the link Simey posted. His Christian basics book is really good too and The Bible speaks today is a great read.
Gold in high carats I tell you.

He's written other commentaries as well as those on this link
http://www.langhampartnership.org/john-stott/bibliography/books-by-john-stott

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