One can always use a nice, solid reminder of the basics. Specifically helpful in a couple of places: I'm often wishing I had Jesus physically present with me, but Jesus said it's better to have the Spirit in me. And of course I can always use a reminder of the simple requirement of obedience. Specifically off in a couple of places: In his call to unbelievers to receive Christ, he goes on at length about this painting and the usual Arminian take about the polite Jesus refusing to intrude unless invited in. And in an updated list of recommended resources (I wonder if Stott himself did this, or if it was done by IVP), he switches from recommending the RSV (which isn't perfect) to the NRSV (which was a big step in the wrong direction). It seemed a little anachronistic, in a classic of mid-20th-century Evangelicalism to find that sad signpost of late-20th-century Evanjellyfishism. It's sad that Stott made that slide. At least he didn't also go back and insert any of the annihilationism that he espoused later in life.