{"id":29300,"date":"2011-11-13T18:01:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T18:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/tim_keller_john_stott_first_to_speak_gods_word_to_me\/"},"modified":"2011-11-13T18:01:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T18:01:51","slug":"tim_keller_john_stott_first_to_speak_gods_word_to_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29300","title":{"rendered":"Tim Keller: John Stott was the First to Speak God&#39;s Word to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christians should be convicted by Stott\u2019s Kingdom vision and zeal for God\u2019s Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything I have read, known, and by all accounts, John Stott\u2019s motives were about as pure as a human being\u2019s motives can be,\u201d\u009d asserted Keller. \u201cHe was not an ambitious man for his own glory. He did not want power. It was obvious he did not want status. He did not want wealth, he gave it away&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere is my point. Most of the rest of us would be very happy being told you are the best. You are the best preacher, you\u2019re the best of this or that. But he didn\u2019t care about that. He wanted to change the world for Christ,\u201d\u009d Keller explained. \u201cI looked at his motives, I looked at his labors, how he spent himself, and how he gave himself. Why wasn\u2019t he ever satisfied? It really was not worldly ambition. He really wanted to really change the world for Christ. We should be convicted by that.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gospelherald.net\/article\/ministries\/47609\/tim-keller-john-stott-first-to-speak-gods-word-to-me.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians should be convicted by Stott\u2019s Kingdom vision and zeal for God\u2019s Kingdom. \u201cEverything I have read, known, and by all accounts, John Stott\u2019s motives were about as pure as a human being\u2019s motives can be,\u201d\u009d asserted Keller. \u201cHe was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29300\">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":[36,48,39,50,42,209,74,186,389,438,419,119,435,154,184,439,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-history","category-church-of-england-coe","category-death-burial-funerals","category-evangelicals","category-globalization","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-preaching-homiletics","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29300","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=29300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}