D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Volume 2: The Fight of Faith 1939 - 1981

Author

Iain H. Murray

Category History & Biography

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: Volume 2 by Iain Murray

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Weight	2.54 lbs
Dimensions	8.8 × 5.75 × 2.1 in
ISBN	9780851515649
Binding	Cloth-bound
Topic	20th century, Pastoral Biography
Original Pub Date	1990
Banner Pub Date	Jun 1, 1990
Page Count	862
Format	Book

ENDORSEMENTS

‘If D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ life were a novel it would be panned by critics as too unrealistic. Because his life is a historical reality we are left to wonder at the providential energy that could have effected such an astonishing career. …This book is an electrifying apologetic for the powerfully theologized pulpit emphases of the Reformers and Puritans.’ — CHRISTIANITY TODAY

‘This provides great encouragement and instruction for pastors seeking a ministry given to scriptural and doctrinal edification of the Bride of Christ.’ — TOM NETTLES

‘The two-volume biography of Martyn Lloyd- Jones, the most powerful twentieth-century influence on my life.’ — MICHAEL HAYKIN

Book Description

The ministry of Martyn Lloyd-Jones at Westminster Chapel which began at the outbreak of World War II, was suddenly changed at the point at which this volume begins. His hard work in the difficult War and post-War years became the preparation for his great influence in London in the fifties and sixties. But these pages trace his ministry into wider circles – to the Universities, to Europe, the United States, South Africa and ultimately, in his books, to the whole world.

While Dr Lloyd-Jones’ ministry was thus altering the course of things in the Christian world, other powerful changes were also at work. Ecumenism stirred the declining British churches and found evangelicalism unprepared and uncertain in its response. Crusade evangelism and then the charismatic movement brought additional uncertainties. These things inevitably drew Lloyd-Jones into controversy and, with a new toleration appearing with evangelicalism, his voice was no longer as welcome as it had once been. Many were unready to believe, as he did, that the popular adjustments being made by evangelicals were only substitutes for the true awakening so profoundly needed.

This volume contains much source material now in print for the first time and will be a primary text on evangelicalism in the twentieth century. At all vital points Iain Murray, the authorised biographer, is able to give his subjects own understanding of what happened. But neither public ministry nor controversy dominate the story. There is much on Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ personal life. The foremost impression left is of the overruling of divine providence and of the spiritual grace which shown in him as a Christian. Though in the eyes of the other Christians he was ‘full of faith and of the Holy Spirit’, yet in his own eyes he was, ‘ nothing but an old sinner saved by the grace of God’.

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	Abbreviations	x
	Illustrations	xi
	Biographical Table	xv
	Introduction	xix
	PART ONE
	A Decade of Surprises, 1939-49
1	War	3
2	The Message for the Hour	21
3	Inside the Family	37
4	A Leader in Britain	57
5	New Agencies	81
6	Westminster Chapel, 1943-44	99
7	The Year 1945	125
8	Overseas Visits, 1946-48	143
9	The Rebuilding of a Congregation	161
10	‘Last of the Calvinistic Preachers’	183
11	Wales and the Summer of 1949	201
	PART TWO
	When the Tide Turned, the 1950’s
12	A New Generation and New Thought	225
13	Sunday Mornings in the 1950’s	251
14	Summer Travels	275
15	The Changing Religious Scene	297
16	Evangelism	323
17	‘Great Purposes of Grace’	345
18	1959 and the Burden for Revival	369
19	The Ministry of Others	391
20	Pastoral Counselling	403
	PART THREE
	Sifting Times
21	Unity: Ecumenical or Evangelical?	427
22	Conversations and Journeys	453
23	Cross Winds	473
24	1965: The Approaching Crisis	495
25	1966: The Call to Decision	513
26	Controversy	535
27	Controversy: An Assessment	553
28	The End of an Era	569
	PART FOUR
	Working for an Evangelical Succession
29	The Last Visit to America	599
30	A World Pulpit	629
31	Understanding in the 1970’s	655
32	‘Rejoice in the Lord Always’	673
33	A Pastor of Pastors	697
34	Keeping On	715
35	‘Dying … He Worshipped’	729
36	‘The Best of Men … ’	753
	APPENDICES
1	A Personal Letter	781
2	Miraculous Healing	785
3	Dr Lloyd-Jones on Audio	789
4	Dr James Packer and Anglican Evangelicalism	793
5	Tapes	797
6	Bibliography of D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones	799
	Index	811

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Martijn de Groot – September 10, 2018

Maybe you have read a couple of books of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones and you wonder why he emphasizes this or that topic. In this volume you can read in what kind of fight he was engaged, a fight of faith. What struck me the most while reading this book, is the lonely position of Lloyd-Jones in his own time. He stood, where many fell. And we still reap the benefits of his standing for the Truth. I think this is one of the reasons why John MacArthur says: “When the final chapter of church history is written, I believe the Doctor will stand as one of the greatest preachers of all time.”

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This authorised biography traces the story of the ‘Doctor’ from a Harley Street medical practice to ministry in an impoverished Welsh mining town, the pulpit of Westminster Chapel and a worldwide influence. 416 & 856pp.