Martin Lloyd-Jones

I’m currently working through Lloyd-Jones’ book “Preaching and Preachers”. Thus far am really grateful for the insightful wisdom he gives to the topic. Here is a gleaning of some of my favorite quotes thus far:

—He has been sent, he is a commissioned person. In other words he is not there merely to talk to them, he is not there to entertain them. He is there—and I want to emphasis this—to do something to those people; he is there to produce results of various kinds; he is there to influence people. He is not merely to influence a part of them; he is not only to influence their minds, or only their emotions, or merely to bring pressure to bear on their wills and to induce them to some kind of activity. He is there to deal with the whole person; and his preaching is meant to affect the whole person at the very centre of life. Preaching should make such a difference to a man who is listening that he is never the same again. Preaching, in other words, is a transaction between the preacher and the listener. It does something for the soul of man, for the whole of the person, the entire man; it deals with him in a vital and radical manner [Read more…] about Gleanings from Lloyd-Jones