I love to read biographies. I find history and particularly the lives
of those who have walked before us fascinating. One of the things I
cherish most about a good biography is learning valuable lessons from
another’s experience. It’s important to learn from the past and to
recognize that most problems have a way of coming full circle. This
seems to be the case when it comes to the health of the church and of
individual believers.
Dr. David Martyn Lloyd-Jones was a Welsh preacher who lived and
preached in London England during the twentieth century. He was a
fascinating man who was on the verge of becoming a world-renowned
physician before abandoning medicine to pursue his divine calling to
proclaim the Word of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ. Throughout his
life he proved to be a stalwart for the faith, defending it against the
liberal thinking of the day. His uncanny ability to carefully diagnose
problems and to remedy them with sound biblical logic and principles
was unrivalled. When the “evangelical” church was caving to the currents
of the culture, Lloyd-Jones stood boldly to “preach the Word… in season
and out of season (2 Tim. 4:2).
His concern for the superficiality that seemed to characterize the
evangelical church caused him to reflect upon the reasons and solution
for such a plight. He believed that the hallmark of a true experience of
God was a sense of awe, and accompanying it, a sense of unworthiness.
While he strongly warned against the dangers of morbid introspection,
self condemnation and professions of constant failure, he did not shy
away from stating that the weakened state of the church was a result of a
defective sense of sin and a defective doctrine of sin. Consider the
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