My book, JOHN STOTT: A Summary of his Teaching, which was published in 2021 has been re-issued by Langham Publishing in their Langham Global Library imprint on June 30, 2025. John Stott (1921-2011) was a popular and respected evangelical Anglican, pastor, preacher, prolific author, theologian and world-wide Christian leader whose influence continues to reverberate through his biblical commentaries, and other books on the Christian life.

I find that his words still instruct and inspire me. I have not attempted to systematize his theology but to give ‘a full and balanced exposition of his thought and teaching.’ While many preachers, teachers and mature disciples may have read one or two of his books, not everyone has the time and ability to read them all and to grasp the extent of what he believed and taught over his lifetime. By categorizing his thoughts under separate subjects my hope is that they will provide resources that are accessible to busy pastors and teachers to use for themselves to enrich their communication of the Gospel. The wisdom that Stott supplies is clear, balanced, reasonable, knowledgeable, practical, compassionate, realistic and persuasive. He is not just intellectual (although he is intelligent, highly educated and opposes anti-intellectualism), but also has an understanding of the heart and the experience of ordinary human beings. His output over his life was prodigious and covered most aspects of the Christian life and the needs of the world. I hope that this summary of his work will encourage the readers to find nourishment for their souls, their minds, their hearts, their relationships and fodder for their witness and work in the world.

In 1996, evangelical historian Mark Noll considered ‘John Stott the sanest, clearest and most solidly biblical living writer on theological topics in the English language.’

John Stott’s conviction was that the Gospel of Christ was the only remedy for the ills of civilization. Never has this remedy been needed more as the world battles fear, pandemics, economic challenges and the ultimate enemy – death. His message is sorely needed in every church today as people are hungry for the bread of life and desperate for meaning and purpose. As he wrote about Paul’s Letter to the Romans as the fullest and grandest statement of the gospel in the New Testament.

It proclaims freedom from the wrath of God revealed against all ungodliness, freedom from “the dark little dungeon of our own ego” (Malcolm Muggeridge), freedom from ethnic conflict, freedom from death and the fear of death, freedom from pain and decay in the future redeemed universe, and freedom to live in love for God and our neighbor.

Table of Contents

1. God
2. Christ
3. Holy Spirit
4. Humanity
5. The Cross
6. Holy Scripture
7. Salvation
8. The Church
9. Preaching
10. The Sacraments
11. Mission
12. Discipleship
13. The Kingdom of God
14. Ethics
15. The Last Things
16. Orni-Theology

Epilogue

The book is available on Amazon.com