"Who Is John Stott?"

This is the title of a November 30 editorial in the New York Times. Stott is an elderly English clergyman and a well-known writer. Here is something he said:

It is not because we are ultra-conservative, or obscurantist, or reactionary or the other horrid things which we are sometime said to be. It is rather because we love Jesus Christ, and because we are determined, God helping us, to bear witness to his unique glory and absolute sufficiency.

This is well-said and expresses what many of us believe, but rarely gets across because the great majority of newspaper and magazine and other media people don't get it (they think they do). Even so, I wonder if this really "connects" with those who don't see things the way Stott does...to many it probably sounds like holy clap-trap.

It would have to me, once.