{"id":146844,"date":"2026-07-27T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146844"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:11:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:11:35","slug":"monday-food-for-thought-from-john-r-w-stott-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146844","title":{"rendered":"Monday food for thought from John R W Stott"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>-&#8216;All around us we see Christians and churches relaxing their grasp on the gospel, fumbling it, and in danger of letting it drop from their hands altogether&#8217; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;John R. W. Stott, <b>Guard the Gospel<\/b> (Downers Grove, Ill., InterVarsity Press, 1973),<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today&#39;s centenary of birth of John Stott, an evangelical Anglican clergyman named by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Time?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Time<\/a> among 100 most influential people. As member of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AllSoulsLP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AllSoulsLP<\/a>, 1981-84, his preaching, humility &amp; founding of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/liccltd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@liccltd<\/a> had massive impact on my Christian formation. (photo <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LanghamPartners?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LanghamPartners<\/a> ) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lQE4k2K9Ax\">pic.twitter.com\/lQE4k2K9Ax<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Revd Nicholas Pye (@RevdPye) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RevdPye\/status\/1386965529739644930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-&#8216;All around us we see Christians and churches relaxing their grasp on the gospel, fumbling it, and in danger of letting it drop from their hands altogether&#8217; &#8211;John R. W. Stott, Guard the Gospel (Downers Grove, Ill., InterVarsity Press, 1973),<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=146844\">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":[92,162,164,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-christology","category-soteriology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146844","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=146844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146846,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146844\/revisions\/146846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}