QUAL O FUTURO DA IGREJA?
É sobre esta e outras questões da vida da igreja que John Stott, com o coração de pastor e a habilidade de mestre, desvenda a sabedoria bíblica e a torna prática para todos os que enfrentam os desafios de ser e viver nas igrejas dos nossos dias.
Para John Stott, precisamos começar com os fundamentos bíblicos e depois aplicá-los à cultura. A Igreja Autêntica apresenta esses fundamentos essenciais, que devem estar presentes nas igrejas em todo tempo e lugar.
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"Tenho contado com os livros de John Stott por décadas, como alimento e também como guia prático para a vida cristã. A Igreja Autêntica é um livro extremamente útil para discernir as questões controvertidas dos tempos modernos".
Timothy Keller
John Robert Walmsley Stott is a British Christian leader and Anglican clergyman who is noted as a leader of the worldwide evangelical movement. He is famous as one of the principal authors of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974.
Stott was ordained in 1945 and went on to become a curate at All Souls Church, Langham Place (1945-1950) then rector (1950-75). This was the church in which he had grown up, and in which he has spent almost all of his life, aside from a few years spent in Cambridge.
Stott played a central role at two landmark events in the history of British evangelicalism. He was chairing the National Assembly of Evangelicals in 1966, a convention organised by the Evangelical Alliance, when Martyn Lloyd-Jones made an unexpected call for evangelicals to unite together as evangelicals and no longer within their 'mixed' denominations.
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