Christian Basics is a classic introduction to the Christian faith and a refresher course in Christianity's essentials. Respected author and speaker John Stott explains Christian beginnings, beliefs, and behavior, including: * how Christianity revolves around the person of Jesus Christ and a relationship to him-not a creed or code of conduct * what Christians believe, structured around an affirmation of the three persons of the Trinity * how to build spiritual strength through a disciplined life in the Spirit This accessible guide includes end-of-chapter discussion questions, group activities, and suggestions for further reading and Bible study.
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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