What is an Evangelical?

Book Description:

After many years of leadership in the work of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones became deeply concerned with what he believed to be subtle but real shifts in commitment to the biblical gospel. His three addresses at the I.F.E.S. Conference in 1971 drew attention to this. In them he indicated the reasons for his misgivings, gave an exposition of the true nature of evangelicalism and reemphasised the foundation stones on which it was built.

These addresses lay unpublished for almost two decades. Today, forty years later, much of what Dr Lloyd-Jones emphasised then reads like a prophecy of the future direction evangelicals would take during the years that followed. His comments are as trenchantly relevant for the twenty-first century as they were for the 1970s. If anything, his message is all the more urgent.

This material is extracted from Knowing the Times, a selection of addresses by Dr. Lloyd-Jones during the years 1942-1977, also published by the Banner of Truth Trust.

Table of Contents
Part I
The Constant Necessity for Definition
Recent History and Changes
Re-examining Our Name
The Danger of Wrong Divisions
Succumbing to the Ecumenical Spirit
'The Holy Spirit, Not Doctrine'
Non-Evangelical Opposition to Ecumenicism
Part II
Guiding Principles: (1) The Preservation of the Gospel
Guiding Principles: (2) Learning from History
Guiding Principles: (3) Maintaining Negatives
Guiding Principles: (4) No Subtractions or Additions
Evangelical Priorities
Watchfulness
Distrust of Reason
The Place of Reason
Other Marks of an Evangelical
Uppermost Concerns
Part III
Foundational and Secondary Truths
Justifying a Vital Distinction
The Necessity of Opposition to Doctrinal Indifferentism
Scripture: The Only and Full Authority
Creation, Not Evolution
The Fall and Evil
One Way of Salvation
The Church: Contemporary Issues
Secondary Truths Not Essential to Unity

Author:

D.M. Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981), minister of Westminster Chapel in London for 30 years, was one of the foremost preachers of his day. His many books have brought profound spiritual encouragement to millions around the world.

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