“A man who imagines that because he has a head full of knowledge that he is sufficient for these things had better start learning again. ‘Who is sufficient for these things?’ What are you doing? You are not simply imparting information, you are dealing with souls, you are dealing with pilgrims on the way to eternity, you are dealing with matters not only of life and death in this world, but with eternal destiny.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers
“[The] term ‘decide’ has always seemed to me to be quite wrong…A sinner does
not ‘decide’ for Christ; the sinner ‘flies’ to Christ in utter helplessness and
despair saying —
Foul, I to the fountain fly,
Wash me, Saviour, or I die.
No man truly comes to Christ unless he flies to Him as his only refuge and
hope, his only way of escape from the accusations of conscience and the
condemnation of God’s holy law. Nothing else is satisfactory. If a man says
that having thought about the matter and having considered all sides he has on
the whole decided for Christ, and if he has done so without any emotion or
feeling, I cannot regard him as a man who has been regenerated. The convicted
sinner no more ‘decides’ for Christ than the poor drowning man ‘decides’ to
take hold of that rope that is thrown to him and suddenly provides him with the
only means of escape. The term is entirely inappropriate.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers
“In a sense one should not go to books for ideas; the business of books is
to make one think. We are not gramophone records, we are to think originally.
What we preach is to be the result of our own thought. We do not merely
transmit ideas. The preacher is not meant to be a mere channel through which
water flows; he is to be more like a well. So the function of reading is to
stimulate us in general, to stimulate us to think, to think for ourselves. Take
all you read and masticate it thoroughly. Do not just repeat it as you have
received it; deliver it in your own way, let it emerge as a part of yourself,
with your stamp upon it.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers
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