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    The Disciple: A Calling to Be Christlike
    The Disciple: A Calling to Be Christlike
    The Disciple: A Calling to Be Christlike
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    The Disciple: A Calling to Be Christlike

    By John Stott and Tim Chester

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    If Christ is our Lord, then we are his servants, and if he is our teacher, then we are his pupils.

    Following Christ is a multi-faceted responsibility. We should remember:

    * Every true disciple is a listener
    * We are both rational and emotional
    * We can discern God's call and will

    Love is the first fruit of the Spirit, a core ingredient of discipleship.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIVP
    Release dateJun 20, 2019
    ISBN9781783599318
    The Disciple: A Calling to Be Christlike
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    John Stott

    John Stott is known worldwide as a preacher, evangelist and communicator of Scripture. For many years he served as rector of All Souls Church in London, where he carried out an effective urban pastoral ministry. Stott was honored by Time magazine in 2005 as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World." His many books, including Why I Am a Christian and The Cross of Christ, have sold millions of copies around the world and in dozens of languages.

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      The Disciple - John Stott

      In my formative years as a young Christian, I was acutely aware of the fact that I faced many challenges to Christian thinking and behaviour. Few writers helped me to understand how I should respond to these challenges and think and live as a Christian as much as John Stott did. The challenges of faithfulness to God’s way are more acute and complex today than when I was a young Christian. In these little books, you find the essence of Stott’s thinking about the Christian life; it is refreshing to read this material again and see how relevant and health-giving it is for today. I’m grateful to Inter-Varsity Press and to Tim Chester for making Stott’s thinking accessible to a new generation.

      Ajith Fernando, Teaching Director, Youth for Christ, Sri Lanka

      Technology has enabled more voices to clamour for our attention than ever before, while, at the same time, people’s ability to listen carefully seems to have deteriorated as never before. John Stott’s speaking and writing was renowned for two things in particular: he taught us how to listen attentively to God in order to live faithfully for God; and he modelled how to listen to the world sensitively in order to communicate God’s purposes intelligibly. He taught us to listen. That is why it is such a thrill to see The Contemporary Christian carefully revived in a new format as a series for a new generation of readers. As we read, may we listen well!

      Mark Meynell, Director (Europe and Caribbean) Langham Preaching, Langham Partnership and author of Cross-Examined and When Darkness Seems My Closest Friend

      It is always refreshing, enlightening and challenging reading from the pen of John Stott. I am totally delighted that one of his most significant works will continue to be available, hopefully for more decades to come. The way Stott strives to be faithful to the Word of God and relevant to his world – secularized Western society – as the locus for the drama of God’s action, is exemplary, especially for those of us ordained to the service of the church in our diverse contexts. I highly commend The Contemporary Christian series to all who share the same pursuit – listening intently to God’s Word and God’s world, hearing and obeying God.

      David Zac Niringiye, author of The Church: God’s Pilgrim People

      I am delighted that a new generation will now be able to benefit from this rich teaching, which so helped me when it first appeared. As always with John Stott, there is a wonderful blend of faithful exposition of the Bible, rigorous engagement with the world and challenging applications for our lives.

      Vaughan Roberts, Rector, St Ebbe’s Church, Oxford, and author of a number of books, including God’s Big Picture (IVP)

      Imagine being like a child overwhelmed by hundreds of jigsaw puzzle pieces – you just can’t put them together! And then imagine that a kindly old uncle comes along and helps you to assemble the whole thing, piece by piece. That is what it felt like reading John Stott’s book The Contemporary Christian. For those of us who feel we can’t get our heads around our Bibles, let alone our world, he comes along and, with his staggering gifts of clarity and insight, helps us, step by step, to work out what it means to understand our world through biblical lenses. It’s then a great blessing to have Tim Chester’s questions at the end of each chapter, which help us to think through and internalize each step.

      Rico Tice, Senior Minister for Evangelism, All Souls, Langham Place, London, and co-author of Christianity Explored

      I have long benefited from the work of John Stott because of the way he combines rigorous engagement of the biblical text and careful engagement with the culture of his day. The Contemporary Christian series presents Stott at his very best. It displays his commitment to biblical authority, his zeal for the mission of the church and his call to faithful witness in the world. Stott’s reflections here are a must-read for church leaders today.

      Trevin Wax, Director of Bibles and Reference, LifeWay Christian Resources, and author of This Is Our Time and Eschatological Discipleship

      All the royalties from this book have been irrevocably assigned to Langham Literature. Langham Literature is a ministry of Langham Partnership, founded by John Stott. Chris Wright is the International Ministries Director.

      Langham Literature provides Majority World preachers, scholars and seminary libraries with evangelical books and electronic resources through publishing and distribution, grants and discounts. They also foster the creation of indigenous evangelical books in many languages through writers’ grants, strengthening local evangelical publishing houses and investment in major regional literature projects.

      For further information on Langham Literature, and the rest of Langham Partnership, visit the website at <www.langham.org>.

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      INTER-VARSITY PRESS

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      This edition © John Stott’s Literary Executors, 2019

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher or the Copyright Licensing Agency.

      This volume has been adapted from John Stott, The Contemporary Christian (1992), and is one of five titles published in this format in The Contemporary Christian series, with extra text, including questions, by Tim Chester.

      Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version (Anglicized edition). Copyright © 1979, 1984, 2011 by Biblica. Used by permission of Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, an Hachette UK company. All rights reserved. ‘

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      are taken from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1946, 1952, 1971 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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      is taken from the Revised Version of the Bible (1885).

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      ISBN: 978–1–78359–930–1

      eBook ISBN: 978–1–78359–931–8

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      Inter-Varsity Press publishes Christian books that are true to the Bible and that communicate the gospel, develop discipleship and strengthen the church for its mission in the world.

      IVP originated within the Inter-Varsity Fellowship, now the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship, a student movement connecting Christian Unions in universities and colleges throughout Great Britain, and a member movement of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. Website: www.uccf.org.uk. That historic association is maintained, and all senior IVP staff and committee members subscribe to the UCCF Basis of Faith.

      Contents

      About the authors

      Preface

      A note to the reader

      Series introduction: the Contemporary Christian: the then and the now

      The Disciple Introduction

      1 The listening ear

      2 Mind and emotions

      3 Guidance, vocation and ministry

      4 The first fruit of the Spirit

      Conclusion: the now and the not yet

      Notes

      About the authors

      John Stott had a worldwide ministry as a church leader, a Bible expositor and the author of many award-winning books. He was Rector Emeritus of All Souls, Langham Place, London, and Founder-President of the Langham Partnership.

      Tim Chester is Pastor of Grace Church, Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire, Chair of Keswick Ministries and the author of more than forty books.

      Preface

      To be ‘contemporary’ is to

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