Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Some quotes from Joy Unspeakable

“This is no age to advocate restraint; the church today does not need to be restrained, but to be aroused, to be awakened, to be filled with the spirit of glory, for she is failing in the modern world.” (p75)

“It is our business to desire to attain always to the New Testament norm; we have no right to do anything else.” (p184)

“New Testament Christianity is not just a formal, polite, correct, and orthodox kind of faith and belief. No! What characterizes it is this element of love and passion, the pneumatic element, this life, this vigor, this abandon, this exuberance – and as I say, it has ever characterized the life of the church in all periods of revival and reawakening.” (p203)

Lloyd-Jones was quite passionate about the church. It would have been fascinating to hear him preach in Westminster Chapel. I'm almost done the book

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