In years to come, John Stott realized that not all Christians are pacifists. It surprised him at first. No one explained to him that there could be a ‘just war’ in which it was right for Christians to take part. Had this been explained, he felt he would have changed his position. Nearly fifty years later, Oliver Barclay edited a book on Pacifism and War in a series called When Christians Disagree. He too had come to see that the matter was not as clearcut as he first thought.
