John Stott 1921 - 2011

SNIPPETS EXTRA Reverend Dr John Stott The Reverend Dr John Stott has died at the age of 90. Dr Stott died at his retirement home at St Barnabas College at 3.15pm on Wednesday 27th July 2011 surrounded by close friends. Dr Billy Graham paid tribute to him, describing him as a "close friend and advisor" and saying the evangelical world had lost one of its greatest spokesmen.

Stott will be remembered as one of the pioneers of the 20th century evangelical movement and was one of the main authors of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974. He was the author of more than 40 books, including his most famous "Basic Christianity", which sold more than two million copies and has been translated into over 60 languages. BBC Religious Affairs Correspondent, Robert Pigott said Dr Stott was good at simply expressing "the complexities of theology". He played a critical role as a Christian thinker, helping to revive evangelicalism in England after World War II at a time when this traditionalist Protestant branch of Christianity had lost almost all its influence and its followers were widely derided as uneducated. Known to many as "Uncle John", Dr Stott was born to an agnostic father and a Lutheran mother and was ordained a minister in the Church of England. He worshipped at All Souls Langham Place as a child and later served as Rector there for many years. FEB Chairman Harvey Thomas CBE said, "John Stott was a great man of God and it was an enormous privilege to work with him on Billy Graham Crusades and on the Lausanne Congress. His depth of vision and clarity of thought were both an inspiration and an example to many of us who learned from him" article taken from CT Herts website, General News, Aug 2011