Ideas for things to do

Find a panoramic view of Trinity Great Court (the largest of any Cambridge or Oxford college) on the BBC Cambridgeshire website.

Listen to John Stott preach. Go to www.allsouls.org. Search for his name, then register (free) to download or listen on line to his sermons.

Consider reading the Bible through in a year, using the McCheyne Bible reading plan which John Stott used. You will find it as a free download. Or it is published under the title More Precious than Gold in The Didasko Files series with John Stott’s brief introduction.

Consider what ‘life verses’ you would talk about if you were asked, and why you would aim to live by them (Fact File 9,).

The cross was always, always, always at the centre of John Stott’s preaching. Read a book which explains why Jesus died. If The Cross of Christ by John Stott is too long, try shorter ones written by two friends of his: Cross Examined by Mark Meynell or The Glory of the Cross by James Philip.

Read The Cape Town Commitment at www.lausanne.org.

Choose one or two of John Stott’s books to read. They are all easily available new and secondhand.

Here are some to select from:

The Radical Disciple (his final book)

Basic Christianity

Christ the Controversialist

Issues Facing Christians Today

People my Teachers

The Birds, our Teachers

The Cross of Christ

Understanding the Bible

Why I am a Christian

John Stott founded the Bible Speaks Today series of commentaries. The ‘BSTs’ as they are known, do two jobs. They explain the Bible books and apply what the Bible teaches. He edited all the New Testament volumes and wrote seven of them himself.

Take a look at some of the following websites. If you plan to go to university, check out www.ifesworld.org for the Christian Union movement in your country, so you can find a group like the CICCU on your campus.

Langham Partnership International

www.langhampartnership.org

John Stott Ministries (Langham Partnership is known by this name in the USA). www.johnstott.org

International Fellowship of Evangelical Students

www.ifesworld.org

Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship

(UCCF, formerly Inter-Varsity Fellowship, UK)

www.uccf.org.uk

Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union

(CICCU) www.ciccu.org.uk

All Souls Church, Langham Place. www.allsouls.org

The Lausanne Movement www.lausanne.org

The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity www.licc.org

Armonia www.armonia-uk.org.uk

Mahalir Aran Trust

www.zoealliance.com/community_dharmapuri.php

Tearfund (John Stott served as President from 1983-1997) www.tearfund.org

A Rocha (John Stott served on the Council)

www.arocha.org

All John Stott’s papers have been archived in Lambeth Palace Library in London. They could have been placed in university archives, or in the Billy Graham Center in Wheaton, Illinois, USA. He chose Lambeth as a symbol of his deep commitment to the Anglican Church.

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