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John Stott: Abrahamic and apostolic?

John Stott: Abrahamic and apostolic?

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Chris Wright suggests the scale and scope of Stott’s ministry were epic

‘I am a great believer,’ John Stott would often say, ‘in the importance of B.B.C. Not the British Broadcasting Company, nor Bethelehem Bible College, nor even Beautiful British Columbia. But “Balanced Biblical Christianity”.’ In my own assessment of John’s life and ministry I suggest a Biblical balance of Old and New Testaments by saying that the scale and scope of John Stott’s significance within the global church has been both Abrahamic and apostolic.

AS FEAR GOES VIRAL…

AS FEAR GOES VIRAL…

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‘If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you’ve never spent a sleepless night with a single mosquito.’ So runs a saying we learned while living in India. Tiny things punch way above their weight. And a virus is a lot smaller than a mosquito.

In fact, viruses are among the smallest life forms on our planet. Somewhere between 20–400 nanometres, 100 times smaller than bacteria, and too small to see even with a normal microscope. You’ll need an electron microscope to spot a coronavirus, or Covid-19, as we must now call it, like somebody out of Star Wars. But what an impact that infinitesimally small organism has made!

The modern war on truth

The modern war on truth

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Chris Wright discusses the ramifications of living in a society where lying is the norm

‘What is truth?’ asked Pontius Pilate. Jesus had just said: ‘Everyone who is on the side of truth listens to me’ (John 18:37-38).

When bad things happen

When bad things happen

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As we begin the new year, Chris Wright seeks a biblical response when current events are challenging

Sometimes events in the news have an uncanny resemblance to things in the Bible – sometimes very tragically so.

‘Though the earth give way’

‘Though the earth give way’

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Chris Wright on how Christians should live in an age of growing international chaos.

I read in the New York Times some weeks ago that there are increasing numbers of young couples getting married with the intention of not having children.

Word on the world

Word on the world

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Langham Partnership’s International Ministries Director Chris Wright seeks a biblical response to the current world

Right now, we are living in a terminal phase of Western civilization.

Bible, boomers and below

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‘Hey, Dad, the sermon today was 1 hour 7 minutes and 20 seconds long. All in Portuguese.’

My gap-year daughter was on her regular Sunday collect-call home from her short-term mission placement in Brazil. ‘So I spent the time memorising the books of the Bible. Do you want to know what they are? Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus….’ My first thought was: ‘I’m paying for this call while you rattle off all the books of the Bible’. My second was: ‘Isn’t it great that my teenage daughter wants to knows her way around the Bible?’

Whole gospel, whole church, whole world

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The Lausanne Covenant, substantially crafted by John Stott, includes the phrase: ‘Evangelisation requires the whole church to take the whole gospel to the whole world’.

One might argue that the three wholes embodied in this ringing phrase are hardly new, and go back to the Apostle Paul, if not to the patriarch Abraham himself. Let us look at what each means.