CQOD: 09/20/07 -- Stott: a persuasive demonstration

Christian Quotation of the Day

September 20, 2007

Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871

Meditation:
    For you know that we dealt with each of you as a father deals with his own children, encouraging, comforting and urging you to live lives worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and glory.
    -- 1 Thessalonians 2:11,12 (NIV)

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Quotation:
    Instead of always being one of the chief bastions of the social status quo, the Church is to develop a Christian counter-culture with its own distinctive goals, values, standards, and lifestyle—a realistic alternative to the contemporary technocracy which is marked by bondage, materialism, self-centeredness, and greed. Christ’s call to obedience is a call to be different, not conformist. Such a Church—joyful, obedient, loving, and free—will do more than please God: it will attract the world. It is when the Church evidently is the Church, and is living a supernatural life of love by the power of the Holy Spirit, that the world will believe.
    ... John R. W. Stott (b.1921), “Obeying Christ in a Changing World”

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, grant me the heart to demonstrate the life of love.

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See Believer's Desktop Companion 2007
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