"We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior."
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Theologians from EnglandPacifistsPeople from LondonClergy from EnglandCommanders of the Order of the British Empire
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Culture and the Bible (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 1981), p. 33
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John Stott
John Robert Walmsley Stott CBE (27 April 1921 – 27 July 2011) was an English Christian leader and Anglican cleric who was noted as a leader of the worldwide Evangelical movement.
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