Your Confirmation

by john-r-w-stott

Your Confirmation (Christian Commitment S.) Stott, John R. W.

Genres: Christian

121 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1974

Reviews

[Mark Linton · Rating 3 out of 5]

"What makes me sure I am a Christian is not that I can look back to such and such a date and say "then I accepted him", but that today I can look into the face of Christ and say “Lord Jesus, Thou art my Saviour in whom I am trusting, and my Lord to whom I belong.” Can you say that?"

"If Christianity is in essence neither a creed, nor a code, nor ceremonies, what is it? It is Christ. Whoever first coined the phrase “Christianity is Christ" hit bedrock. “No other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid," wrote Saint Paul, “which is Jesus Christ" (1 Corinthians 3:11). He is the foundation on which the superstructure of Christianity is built. He is the jewel which the casket of Christianity treasures. Christianity is not a system of any kind—philosophical, ethical or ceremonial; it is a Person. Take Christ from Christianity, and you murder it. Christianity without Christ is a dead and gruesome skeleton with neither flesh nor life. Once place Jesus Christ in the centre, and all other things follow—including both what do you believe and how you behave. Dislodge Christ from a central position, and everything else is out of gear. A Christian, then, is someone who is personally and decisively committed to Jesus Christ as his Saviour and his Lord. He has resolutely turned from his sins in repentance. He has trusted in the Lord Jesus as the one who loved him and gave himself for him on the cross. He has surrendered his life to him, promising to serve and obey him in the fellowship of his church. More briefly, he has repented, believed and surrendered."

[Kayly · Rating 4 out of 5]

As always, Stott is clear and precise.

[Susanna · Rating 5 out of 5]

挺深入浅出，也挺实用的呀。