{"id":102057,"date":"2021-05-09T14:07:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T18:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=102057"},"modified":"2021-05-09T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T20:25:18","slug":"john-stott-the-gospel-is-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=102057","title":{"rendered":"John Stott&#8211;The Gospel is for Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIt would be hard to imagine a more disparate group than the business woman, the slave girl and the [jailer]. Racially, socially and psychologically they were worlds apart. Yet all three were changed by the same gospel and were welcomed into the same church &#8230;It is wonderful to observe in Philippi both the universal appeal of the gospel (that it could reach such a wide diversity of people) and its unifying effect (that it could bind them together in God\u2019s family) &#8230; The wealthy business woman, the exploited slave girl and the rough Roman [jailer] had been brought into a brotherly or sisterly relationship with each other and with the rest of the church &#8230; We too, who live in an era of social disintegration, need to exhibit the unifying power of the gospel.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;John Stott, <strong>The Spirit the Church and the World: The Message of Acts<\/strong> (Downer&#8217;s Grove, Ill.: InterVaristy, 1990),p.270, quoted by yours truly in the morning sermon<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">John Stott Would Want Us to Stop, Study, and Struggle <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Uf79ZeX7aR\">https:\/\/t.co\/Uf79ZeX7aR<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTmagazine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CTMagazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jen Pollock Michel (@Jenpmichel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jenpmichel\/status\/1389554616514273283?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt would be hard to imagine a more disparate group than the business woman, the slave girl and the [jailer]. Racially, socially and psychologically they were worlds apart. Yet all three were changed by the same gospel and were welcomed<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=102057\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,172,164,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-ecclesiology","category-soteriology","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102057"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102067,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102057\/revisions\/102067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}