Of particular importance is the principle, with which I think all of us would agree, that the New Testament writers themselves understood Old Testament prophecy to have not a single but usually a triple fulfillment—past, present, and future. The past fulfillment was an immediate or historical fulfillment in the life of the nation of Israel. [...]
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Triple Fulfillment of Prophecy
Posted in John Stott, prophecy on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Plan
Posted in Jesus, John Stott, history, sovereignty on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
History is not a random flow of events. For God is working out in time a plan which He conceived in a past eternity and will consummate in a future eternity. In this historical process Jesus Christ, as the Seed of Abraham, is the key figure.
–John Stott
The Living God is a Missionary God
(Perspectives reader p. [...]
The Word Became Flesh
Posted in Incarnation, John Stott, contextualization, inspiration of Scripture on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Essentially the same principle is illustrated in both the inspiration of the Scripture and the incarnation of the Son. The Word became flesh. The divine was communicated through the human. He identified with us, though without surrendering His own identity. And this principle of “identification without loss of identity” is the model for all evangelism, [...]
God’s Condescension
Posted in Incarnation, John Stott, contextualization on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What strikes us immediately is the greatness of God’s condescension. He had sublime truth to reveal about Himself and His Christ, His mercy and His justice, and His full salvation. And He chose to make this disclosure through the vocabulary and grammar of human language, through human beings, human images, and human cultures.
–John Stott
The Bible [...]
Guard and Interpret
Posted in John Stott, contextualization on March 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Since [the gospel] comes from God we must guard it; since it is intended for modern men and women we must interpret it.
–John Stott
The Bible in World Evangelization
(Perspectives Reader p. 23)
No Man Could Number
Posted in God of All Nations, John Stott, Revelation, redemption on March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have always derived much comfort from the statement of Revelation 7:9 that the company of the redeemed in heaven will be “a great multitude which no man could number.” I do not profess to know how this can be, since Christians have always seemed to be a rather small minority. But Scripture states it [...]
Our Sin and the Cross
Posted in Cross, John Stott, sin on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For, whether we like it or not, we are involved.
–John Stott
The Cross of Christ (20th Anniversary Edition, p. 18).
(submitted by Shaw)
To Bless All the Families of the Earth
Posted in God of All Nations, John Stott, election, to bless all families on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“…we should never allow ourselves to forget that the Bible begins with the universe, not with the planet earth; then with the earth, not with Palestine; then with Adam the father of the human race, not with Abraham the father of the chosen race.
Since, then, God is the Creator of the universe, the earth and [...]
