John Stott

ll Christian people are saints and believers, and live both in Christ and in the secular world

we are citizens of two kingdoms.

The letter focuses on what God did through the historical work of Jesus Christ and does through his Spirit today, in order to build his new society in the midst of the old.

Therefore we are to demonstrate plainly and visibly by our new life the reality of this new thing which God has done

The whole letter is thus a magnificent combination of Christian doctrine and Christian duty

Christian faith and Christian life, what God has done through Christ and what we must be and do in consequence.

We shall not be able to acquiesce in low standards which fall far short of the New Testament ideals for God’s new society,

e gospel is Christ crucified, His finished work on the cross

This verb prographein means to ‘show forth or portray publicly, proclaim or placard in public’ (

justification’ means to be in favour with God;