Comments on: John R.W. Stott: Defender of the Faith

By: John Stott: A Young Evangelical » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog

John Stott: A Young Evangelical » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:54:08 +0000

[...] Multiple atonement theories: As explained by Anthony below, Stott prioritized substitutionary atonement. But the nuance with which he maintains that [...]

By: That Was the Week That Was « The Pietist Schoolman

That Was the Week That Was « The Pietist Schoolman — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 13:48:59 +0000

[...] myself, I’ll just encourage you to sample at least some of the many tributes that have poured forth since Wednesday. Or visit the Stott Memorial site and support the continuing work of John Stott [...]

By: John Stott, defender of the Atonement, dies | Cranach: The Blog of Veith

John Stott, defender of the Atonement, dies | Cranach: The Blog of Veith — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:31:23 +0000

[...] via John R.W. Stott: Defender of the Faith » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog. [...]

By: J.W. Cox

J.W. Cox — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:56:35 +0000

I never met Stott or heard him speak in person. But his short book, “Basic Christianity” was an essential part of the 3-4 week period in the Fall of 1971 when I moved to an explicit conversion to Christ. In making my profession, sitting in a plowed field on an overcast, chilly day on a Swiss mountainside, I used the book’s concluding short prayer, which Stott wrote for that purpose.

A few years later I was listening to a tape of one of his bible studies on 2 Timothy. I was always struck by the simplicity of his approach, which used his knowledge and scholarship to illuminate the Truth gently. At the end, dealing with the passage 2 Timothy 4:13, he quoted from a letter from a prisoner in the 18th century (the name I no longer remember) who wrote as Paul did, asking a friend to bring him some books he longed to have.

Suddenly, and simply, Stott helped me to see Paul the man, near the end of his life, living in the shadow of what was to come, both in this life and the next; and to have some real sense of what it meant to be continually poured out as a drink offering to His Lord.

Well done, thou good and faithful servant.

By: Fr. Mac D. Culver

Fr. Mac D. Culver — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:16:08 +0000

This great servant of God will be missed but his legacy will continue until His return and after. Many of us owe our “grounding” to this man of God who challenged and mentored. Blessed be His name.

By: Steve DuPlessie

Steve DuPlessie — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:30:35 +0000

Few writers have shaped my life and ministry as did John Stott. His “Baptism & Fullness on the Holy Spirit brought Biblical clarity in the middle of controversy. “Christian Counterculturalism” on the Sermon on the Mount remains my Favorite guide to that core teaching. And “The Cross of Christ” refocused my ministry to cross-centered preaching. We have lost a great scholar, insightful apoplogist and caring Pastor. I look forward to meeting him some day by God’s grace in glory.