The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones - 1899-1981

This book is a re-cast,
condensed and, in parts,
re-written version of the
author's two volumes D. Martyn Lloyd-
Jones: The First Forty Years (I982) and
The Fight of Faith (I990). Since those
dates, the life of Dr Lloyd-Jones has
been the subject of comment and
assessment in many publications
and these have been taken into
account. The main purpose of this
further biography, however, is to put
Dr Lloyd-Jones' life before another
generation in more accessible form.
The big story is all here.
When Lloyd-Jones left medicine, he
intended only to be an evangelist in
a mission hall in South Wales. No
one was more surprised than he in
being called to a ministry which
would eventually affect churches
across the world. How this happened
is here explained, but the theme is
the person described by F. F. Bruce:
'a thoroughly humble man. He was a
man of prayer, a powerful evangelist, an
expository preacher of rare quality, in
the fullest sense a servant of the Word of
God.'
Behind that theme a greater one
emerges. In ML- J's own words: 'My
whole life experiences are proof of
the sovereignty of God and his direct
interference in the lives of men. I
cannot help believing what I believe.
I would be a madman to believe
anything else-the guiding hand of
God! It is an astonishment to me. '