the great Reverend John Stott. Stott himself had faced his own challenges with heterodoxy in the Church of England and, despite an infamous confrontation with Martin Lloyd Jones over the subject in 1966, he and others had elected to stay. Stott’s reply to the bishop was simple yet profound: “Why should you have to leave, you’ve got the gospel on your side.” In the course of intramural conflicts, one should be willing to be thrown out for standing for the truth when in a confessional minority. But
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