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In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?

In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it?

John Stott
Pain, Real, World
John Stott (2013). “Through the Bible, Through the Year: Daily Reflections from Genesis to Revelation”, p.269, Candle Books

I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.

John Stott
Pain, Voice, Listening

The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.

John Stott
Christian, Pain, Exercise
John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, p.289, InterVarsity Press

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