Review of Stott’s ‘The Living Church’

Posted on May 5, 2008 
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John Stott’s The Living ChurchReading John Stott’s The Living Church is like having a conversation with a venerable and godly grandfather. There’s no bold new vision. No young man’s castles in the sky. You might not even agree with everything he says. Yet all of it commands respect. All of it evinces wisdom. Every single word, every single expression, feels permeated with the deep and calm virtue of a man who has, for more days than can be counted, found his refreshment lying beside the quiet waters of our Lord…

Jonathan Leeman reviews John Stott’s The Living Church: Convictions of a Life Long Pastor. At IX Marks. (The book is available at Moore Books.)