Quotemeal: Aug. 13th, 1959

Thursday, August 13, 1959

"The loving service which God sends His people into the world to render includes both evangelism and social action, for each is in itself an authentic expression of love, and neither needs the other to justify it."
— John R. W. Stott

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Illustration of John R. W. Stott — "The loving service which God sends His people into the world to render includes both evangelism and social action, for each is in itself an authentic expression of love, and neither needs the other to justify it."

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