John Stott Memorial Fund

MEMORIAL FUND

A LIFE THAT STILL SPEAKS: A VISION THAT INSPIRES THE MAN &HIS VISION hat should it mean to church may be growing rapidly around ‘remember John Stott’? What the world, and we rejoice in that. But it is Wmight he himself wish to be oft en growth without depth. Too much remembered for, and what would he most shallowness and immaturity. Too little want us to do in response to the whole Christlikeness. John Stott pioneered the message and challenge of his life? ministries of Langham Partnership John Stott will be remembered as an to help fi ll that gap with better trained outstanding biblical preacher, as a pioneer and better resourced pastors and Bible and innovator in urban parish ministry, teachers, since it is the Word of God that as a strategic leader of the worldwide matures and disciples the people of God. evangelical movement, as a prolifi c Th e mission of the church is weaker writer, and as a model of Christlikeness than it should be because Christians have and personal friendship. All of this and given in to the sacred-secular divide, much more. But we will have failed which tells us (falsely and unbiblically), him, and failed to grasp his signifi cance, that only ‘religious’ activities matter if all we do is look back with nostalgic to God, while the rest of our life and thankfulness. work in the world is irrelevant to God’s For John Stott was also a radical and mission and kingdom. John Stott utterly a visionary. He had penetrating insight rejected such dualism, just as he refused into the gaps in evangelical teaching and to confi ne ‘ministry’ to ordained pastoral living out the full breadth and depth of ministry or church-paid work. Th e current dominant paradigm of mission the biblical gospel. He took us back to the asks people to give some time and money roots of what it means to be a Christian – to ‘support’ the mission initiatives of a disciple of Jesus Christ, saved by grace, church-paid professionals (at home or taught by the Scriptures, and living in abroad). Th is must change. All God’s obedience. And he opened our eyes to the people serve God in all their callings. world around us, challenging us to listen, John Stott founded the London Institute to understand, and to engage our whole for Contemporary Christianity to bring culture with the claims of the gospel of together Christians from every profession Christ’s Lordship. and walk of life along with pastors and Th e witness of the church is so parachurch workers, to learn together to implausible because Christians simply be missionally eff ective salt and light in don’t look like Jesus, he would say. Th e our societies and cultures.

MEMORIAL FUND THE VISION TODAY

he two organizations that John Stott sponsored editing and writing and personally founded, Th e Langham publisher development. TPartnership International (LPI) and ■ Langham Scholars provides fi nancial the London Institute for Contemporary support for evangelical doctoral students Christianity (LICC), between them represent from the Majority World who return to the wholeness of John’s understanding of positions of theological teaching and gospel and mission. Th ey embody his famous leadership to train future pastors and ‘double listening’ – his passion for faithful leaders. communication of God’s Word, and eff ective engagement with God’s world. Th ey combine LICC today… his love for pastors in their ministry of John’s vision for whole-life discipleship was equipping God’s people, and his love for all radical in 1982. And it still is. But imagine if God’s people (the so-called ‘laity’) in their local churches did envision and empower their ministry of serving God in every sphere of life people to live missional lives not just in their in the world. He would not allow that either leisure time but in all of life? Not just in the fi ve was more important than the other. His whole to ten hours they spend each week in church- life served and strengthened both, and so does related activities but in the other 110 hours that his ongoing legacy in the vision and work of they are awake? Today LICC’s team is working LPI and LICC. on making that vision a reality: LPI today… ■ by exposing the theological, hermeneutical and cultural blocks that ■ Langham Preaching partners with hinder whole-life Christianity, national leaders to nurture indigenous preaching movements for pastors and ■ by working on the ground with local lay preachers all around the world. Th is churches to enable them to become partnership provides practical on- whole-life disciple-making communities site support for preachers, organising and training seminars, providing resources, ■ by working in the fi eld with lay people encouraging preachers’ groups, and to equip them to make a diff erence for building a local movement committed to Christ where they are, Bible exposition. ■ by disseminating the fruit of all this ■ Langham Literature provides learning through courses, resources and evangelical books and resources in new media. multiple languages through grants and distribution, and fosters the creation of www.langhampartnership.org indigenous evangelical books through www.licc.org.uk THE VISION GOES ON

ohn Stott’s legacy is incalculable, in would be in line with the integrated his books, his network of friends, wholeness of John Stott’s own vision. his support for so many global A number of joint projects are under organizations and movements, consideration. Th e international and in the lives of those he mentored resources of Langham Scholars and discipled. But in LPI and LICC could contribute to, and benefi t we can see the comprehensiveness from, the agenda of the London of his understanding of the gospel Institute. Langham Preaching and and our mission: in Langham, his the London Institute could combine longing that Christians should grow forces in enhancing the skills of to maturity in Christ through pastors biblical preachers in engaging with and leaders who believe, teach and their cultures. Th e experience of live by the Word of God; and in the both organizations in publishing, London Institute, his passion that facilitating writers, workshops and all Christians should engage the resourcing both pastors and Christians world and its cultures with the truth in the workplace, could be developed of the gospel by living out whole-life in fruitful partnership. All such discipleship under the Lordship of projects will need committed funding. Christ in every area of life and work. Your giving to the John Stott Th is was his rounded, biblical, three- Memorial Fund is a way to ensure that dimensional vision. his vision continues to bless the world. Th ree-dimensional vision needs two eyes! Th e leaders of both organizations are equally passionate that John Stott’s vision should be sustained and enhanced, using the lenses of both our ministries with a single focus. So we are committed to using the John Stott Memorial Fund as John wanted, not only to support the distinctive ministries of both Langham and LICC, but also to provide resources for things that we could do together that MEMORIAL FUND I want to contribute to the ongoing development of John Stott’s desire to see the YES, whole gospel taken by the whole church into the whole world. Name: Address:

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ORN in 1921 in London, John contributed eight from his own pen. Stott was a member of All His commitment to world mission BSouls Church, Langham Place, led him to join Billy Graham in the from childhood to his death. He came First Lausanne Congress on World to personal faith in Christ at Rugby Evangelization in 1974, at which he was School in 1938, and aft er his studies in the principal architect of Th e Lausanne Cambridge was fi rst appointed curate Covenant. Aft er that he continued to at All Souls in 1945, and then Rector shape the theological and missiological in 1950. In 1975 he was given the title direction of that movement through his ‘Rector Emeritus’ and his ministry at the gift ed chairmanship of consultations in church continued until he moved to the the 1980s, culminating in the Second College of St. Barnabas in 2007. Lausanne Congress in Manila in 1989. His international connections began He continued travelling, speaking in the 1950s, with his support of Billy and writing through his seventies and Graham’s evangelistic campaigns in eighties. His last international trip was to London, and his own leadership of China and Hong Kong in January 2006, university missions in the UK, USA, aged 85. Aft er breaking his hip in a fall Australia and Africa. His writings began in August 2006 he became increasingly in the same decade with Basic Christianity immobilized and dependent, but still among the earliest of some fi ft y more managed to complete his fi nal book, in his lifetime. In the 1960s his stature Th e Radical Disciple, when he could grew among evangelicals in the UK and scarcely control his own handwriting. internationally through his speaking at His last public preaching was at the Keswick and Urbana conventions, his Keswick Convention in July 2007, when, leadership of evangelical Anglicans, and characteristically, he spoke on God’s his continued writing and editing work – desire that we should be like Christ. He particularly Th e Bible Speaks Today series died in July 2011, aged 90. of expository commentaries, to which he