Miscellaneous quotations from Cross of Christ

Concerning Acts 20:28, Stott writes "If the church was worth his blood, is it not worth our labour? The privilege of serving it is established by the preciousness of the price paid for its purchase" (Cross of Christ, 181).

In connection with 2 Cor 5.18, 19, Stott writes: "It is not enough to expound a thoroughly orthodox doctrine of reconciliation if we never beg people to come to Christ. Nor is it right for a sermon to consist of an interminable appeal, which has not been preceded by an exposition of the gospel. The rule should be 'no appeal without a proclamation, and no proclamation without an appeal'" (Cross of Christ, 201).