{"id":832,"date":"2017-07-03T16:55:57","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T15:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.com\/?p=832"},"modified":"2017-07-10T13:54:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T12:54:51","slug":"seasonofstott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/seasonofstott\/","title":{"rendered":"#SeasonofStott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers will know that I&#8217;m privileged to be working for SPCK, and IVP, on telling people about books on the internet. More thoughtful readers will be well aware that I&#8217;m a big fan of one of IVP&#8217;s best selling authors, the late and much loved John Stott. Being very influenced by his concept of &#8216;double listening&#8217;, that is, reading God&#8217;s World and reading God&#8217;s Word, together, I hope to stand in his broad and faithful tradition. With that in mind, I&#8217;ve reviewed a couple of his books in the past:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.com\/book-review-the-living-church\/\">The Living Church<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Christ the Controversialist<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.com\/book-review-the-radical-disciple\/\">The Radical Disciple<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.com\/book-review-challenges-of-christian-leadership\/\">Challenges of Christian Leadership<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Recently IVP has started to release some video\/blog reflections of the teaching and legacy of John Stott, kicking off with <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SCR_Hx7I-qY\">Calvin Samuel on Prayer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fzNbxClJEQQ\">Christopher Wright on Mission<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2A0evGOYNTk\">Chine McDonald\u00a0on Devotion<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/U97hiabKG0A\">David Turner on Unity<\/a>. Two more videos are forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/impossible-is-a-dare-2.png\" alt=\"#SeasonofStott\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/impossible-is-a-dare-2.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/impossible-is-a-dare-2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/impossible-is-a-dare-2-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the &#8216;#SeasonofStott&#8217; in more ways than just IVP&#8217;s, however. The Good Book Company, a bookseller\/pubisher based in London for whom I have much admiration, has just published a new book byJohn Stott.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you hear that correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Stott died back in 2011, but his seminal chapter on Same-Sex Relationships from the doorstop\u00a0<em>Contempory Christians<\/em> has been edited and extended, by Sean Dohery of St Mellitus College and Living Out, into a short and readable little book. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.com\/book-review-same-sex-relationships-by-john-stott\/\">You can read my review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wwhy not take this sunny chance to rediscover one of the UK\/Anglicanism\/evangelicalism&#8217;s best bible teachers?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U97hiabKG0A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular readers will know that I&#8217;m privileged to be working for SPCK, and IVP, on telling people about books on the internet. More thoughtful readers will be well aware that I&#8217;m a big fan of one of IVP&#8217;s best selling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/seasonofstott\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57,2,391,406,34,88,223,49,453,55],"tags":[509,264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomascreedy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}