{"id":27552,"date":"2011-07-30T22:41:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T22:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/sharon_autenrieth-john_stott_a_walking_embodiment_of_the_simple_jesus\/"},"modified":"2011-07-30T22:41:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T22:41:40","slug":"sharon_autenrieth-john_stott_a_walking_embodiment_of_the_simple_jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27552","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Autenrieth&#8211;John Stott: &#34;A walking embodiment of the simple beauty of Jesus&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years or so ago I purchased a copy of The Cross of Christ by John Stott.  I&#8217;d heard his name, knew he was &#8220;famous&#8221; in evangelicalism, but had never read any of his writings.  It took only a chapter or two in The Cross of Christ for me to be won over to Stott&#8217;s style of writing.  He was intellectually rigorous but clear and accessible.  More than that, though, I was drawn to the devotion that permeated Stott&#8217;s writing.  It was contagious, the passion he had for Christ and His church.  I wanted it to characterize my own spiritual life.<\/p>\n<p>John Stott was 90 years old when he died in London on Wednesday.  Surrounded by friends, Stott passed away listening to &#8220;Handel&#8217;s Messiah&#8221; and the reading of scripture.  If there is such a thing as a good death, it sounds like a good death to me.  In life and in death, John Stott&#8217;s was soaked in scripture and dedicated to Christ the Messiah.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/lifestyles\/faith-and-values\/civil-religion\/sharon-autenrieth\/article_b180b5d8-ba52-11e0-8f1e-001a4bcf6878.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years or so ago I purchased a copy of The Cross of Christ by John Stott. I&#8217;d heard his name, knew he was &#8220;famous&#8221; in evangelicalism, but had never read any of his writings. It took only a chapter<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27552\">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":[36,48,39,42,74,92,389,419,119,435,154,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-books","category-church-of-england-coe","category-evangelicals","category-globalization","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27552","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=27552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}