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I am a Calvinist; I
believe in election and predestination; but I would not dream of putting it
under the heading of essential. I put it under the heading of non-essential…
You are not saved by your precise understanding of how this great salvation
comes to you. What you must be clear about is that you are lost and damned,
hopeless and helpless, and that nothing can save you but the grace of God in
Jesus Christ and only Him crucified, bearing the punishment of your sins,
dying, rising again, ascending, sending the Spirit, regeneration. Those are the
essentials… While I myself hold very definite and strong views on the subject,
I will not separate from a man who cannot accept and believe the doctrines of
election and predestination, and is Arminian, as long as he tells me that we
are all saved by grace, and as long as the Calvinist agrees, as he must, that
God calls all men everywhere to repentance. As long as both are prepared to
agree about these things I say we must not break fellowship. So I put election
into the category of non-essentials.
- D Martyn Lloyd
Jones
What is an
Evangelical? The Banner of Truth Trust, 1992, p. 87-88.
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David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (20 December 1899 – 1 March 1981) was a
Welsh Protestant
minister, preacher and medical
doctor who was influential in the Reformed wing
of the British evangelical
movement in the 20th century. For almost 30 years, he was the minister of Westminster Chapel in London.
Lloyd-Jones was strongly opposed to Liberal Christianity, which had become a part
of many Christian denominations; he regarded it as
aberrant. He disagreed with the broad
church approach and encouraged evangelical Christians (particularly Anglicans) to
leave their existing denominations. He believed that true Christian fellowship
was possible only amongst those who shared common convictions regarding the
nature of the faith.
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LINKS:
God Set His Sermons on Fire
Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899–1981)
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