1. John Robert Walmsley Stott was a British Anglican pastor and theologian who was noted as a leader of the worldwide evangelical movement.
27 Facts About John Stott
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John Stott was one of the principal authors of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974.
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John Robert Walmsley Stott was born on 27 April 1921 in London, England, to Sir Arnold and Emily "Lily" Stott.
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John Stott's father was a leading physician at Harley Street and an agnostic, while his mother had been raised Lutheran and attended the nearby Church of England church, All Souls, Langham Place.
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John Stott was sent to boarding schools at eight years old, initially to a prep school, Oakley Hall.
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John Stott was mentored by Nash, who wrote a weekly letter to him, advising him on how to develop and grow in his Christian life, as well as practicalities such as leading the Christian Union at his school.
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John Stott studied modern languages at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a double first in French and theology.
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John Stott later received a Lambeth Doctorate of Divinity in 1983.
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John Stott was ordained as a deacon in 1945 and became a curate at All Souls Church, Langham Place, then rector.
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John Stott had founded the Church of England Evangelical Council in 1960 to bring together the different strands of evangelicals.
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In 1975 John Stott resigned as rector and Michael Baughen, the then vicar, was appointed in his place; John Stott remained at the church and was appointed rector emeritus.
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John Stott was regularly accompanied by a leading paediatrician, John Wyatt, and the institute director, the broadcaster Elaine Storkey, when they spoke across the country to large audiences on "Matters of Life and Death".
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John Stott announced his retirement from public ministry in April 2007 at the age of 86.
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John Stott took up residence in the College of St Barnabas, Lingfield, Surrey, a retirement community for Anglican clergy but remained as rector emeritus of All Souls Church.
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John Stott was surrounded by family and close friends and they were reading the Bible and listening to Handel's Messiah when he peacefully died.
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The death of John Stott will be mourned by countless Christians throughout the world.
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John Stott was a man of rare graciousness and deep personal kindness, a superb communicator and a sensitive and skilled counsellor.
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John Stott's funeral was held on 8 August 2011 at All Souls Church.
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John Stott wrote over 50 books, some of which appear only in Chinese, Korean, or Spanish, as well as many articles and papers.
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John Stott's churchmanship fell within the conservative evangelical wing of the Church of England.
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John Stott played a key role as a leader of evangelicalism within the Church of England, and was regarded as instrumental in persuading evangelicals to play an active role in the Church of England rather than leaving for exclusively evangelical denominations.
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John Stott 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 as evangelicals and no longer stay within their "mixed" denominations.
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John Stott was appointed a Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II in 1959 and, on his retirement in 1991, an Extra Chaplain.
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John Stott was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 2006.
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John Stott received a Lambeth Doctorate of Divinity in 1983, as well as five honorary degrees, including doctorates from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Wycliffe College, Toronto, and Brunel University.
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John Stott tentatively held to annihilationism, which is the view that the final state of the unsaved, known as hell, is death and destruction, rather than everlasting conscious torment.
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John Stott never married, had no children, remaining celibate his entire life.