Tuesday, May 22

Reflections on Lloyd-Jones

So, I came across some writings of a Welsh revivalist named Martyn Lloyd-Jones. I had never heard of him before, but some of the stuff that I read was so relevant and poignant. He died about 25 years ago after having led the evangelical movement in Wales and England. After reading some snippets I think I'm going to have to pick up more of him. Here's one quote that floored me:

The glory of the gospel is that when the Church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it. It is then that the world is made to listen to her message, though it may hate it at first. That is how revival comes. That must also be true of us as individuals. It should not be our ambition to be as much like everybody else as we can, though we happen to be Christian, but rather to be as different from everybody who is not a Christian as we can possibly be. Our ambition should be to be like Christ, the more like Him the better, and the more like Him we become, the more we shall be unlike everybody who is not a Christian.

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