Maintaining the Evangelical Faith Today | An Address of Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1953)

In this week’s episode of Into the Pray, I drive to a local quiet spot on the east coast of north Scotland to read for you an address of Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones that ultimately would cause John Stott, (the British theologian from Cambridge), to publicly rebuke him thirteen years later when things came to a controversial head in October 1966.

Lloyd-Jones disagreed with ecumenicalism and the socio-political gospel of  Billy Graham and John Stott so strongly that he chose to face the ignominy that resulted from distancing himself from them both rather than falling into the reality of Galatians 1:7-8.

Are the attitudes which are central to the popularised ecumenical agenda in the so-called Church today (and in Christian homes) true to the gospel of Jesus Christ? What really of these “agree to disagree” agendas that cast a very dark shadow over those who refuse to agree that some doctrines, (and some behaviours), shouldn’t ever be expected to change?

Listen to what Lloyd-Jones warned the church about in 1953 and consider the consequences of such an unheeded warning all these years later.