Dr D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones was greatly concerned about the state of the Christian Church,
especially her very low spiritual temperature.
He was concerned about the lack of fire in the preaching, the absence of
any real sense of the Holy Spirit in the services. While on holiday and worshipping in churches
on a Sunday, he would be quite unimpressed at what passed for worship and
preaching. He often wondered why, when
so many were praying and pleading for revival, as he did throughout his
ministry, that it did not come. When
asked what he considered the reason was for God’s denial of revival in his
time, his answer was literally shocking. He said, “The reason why God has not
sent revival to the churches today is because they are much too healthy.” Jesus said, “Those who are well have no need
of a physician, but those who are sick.
... I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”[1] Too many churches today, the Doctor would
argue, and say with the Laodicean church, “I am rich, have become wealthy, and
have need of nothing.” But our Lord
answered them directly, “[you] do not know that you are wretched, miserable,
poor, blind and naked.”[2] Does this not describe the churches in our
land today?
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