The life of Raymond Johnston

A call for thinking and action

THE LIFE OF RAYMOND JOHNSTON
By David Holloway
Christian Institute
25 pages. £2.50

This 25-page booklet is well worth £2.50. Raymond Johnston was the first evangelical to take the field against the new 'permissive society'.

He took the leadership of a protest movement, the 'National Festival of Light', and turned it into the existing charity, CARE, one of the most effective of Christian lobby groups. He was a close friend of Jim Packer and his theology was based on the sovereignty of God, which he applied to his care for society. This booklet gives the early hard-hitting and biblically-based criticism of the new abortion laws and it reminds us of the distance we have now gone down the slippery slope. He also compares the Christian moral order with Islam and argues: 'We in the West are now living in a collapsing culture. The enormities that are with us pollute the whole community.' But 'faithfulness to the Bible does change society'.

One of the few church leaders today who speaks as boldly and bluntly is he who put this excellent little booklet together.

Fred Catherwood

© Evangelicals Now - May 2004
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Main Articles

• To Affinity and beyond
  A new name for the British Evangelical Council
• European Union and a referendum?
• Watchers - or holy ones?
• God's new deal
  Jeremiah 31.27-37
• The techno sapiens are coming
• It began with prayer
  A brief history of the OICCU
• Letter from America
  A choice, not choices
• Monthly arts column
  Going from Barth to verse
• Monthly youth leaders column
  Putting off the old self
• The Third Degree
  Evangelism is not just for mission weeks
• The Music Exchange
  So much more than warm fuzzies
• The BBC floats with Noah - but not the biblical one!

Other articles

• Touching the void
• A house of praise: Collected hymns 1961 - 2001
• The life of Raymond Johnston
• A Diary of Revival - The outbreak of the 1904 Welsh Awakening
• Becoming
• Flight Path - A biography of Frank Barker Jnr.
• Reflections on Mel Gibson's film, The Passion of the Christ
• Body beautiful: Recovering the biblical view of the church
• In trouble and in joy
• Richard Hobson of Liverpool: The autobiography of a faithful pastor
• Deconstructing evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the age of Billy Graham
• C S Lewis's Cambridge: A walking tour guide
• A history of the work of redemption
• Essential 100: Your way into the heart of the Bible
• A glorious high throne: Hebrews simply explained
• Christian perspectives on the limits of the law
• The Word became Flesh: Evangelicals and the Incarnation
• Whose land? Whose promise?
• Encountering God's Word
• Life from death emerging
• I will build my church
• Does marriage matter?