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God's Way Not Ours

GOD'S WAY NOT OURS
By Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Bryntirion Press. 109 pages.
ISBN 1 85049 023 6

These six sermons of the Doctor were preached at Westminster Chapel immediately after the outbreak of the Second World War. Here is a carefully argued apologetic for the purposes of God that was acutely relevant to its time and setting. The power of this material is that it spoke to the immediate fears and apprehensions of the listeners in regard to an acutely dangerous situation through which they were passing. It addressed real needs in the context of a real and frightening world. This is not truth in a vacuum.

Modern preaching patterns should allow for the possibility of addressing issues which touch on everyday lives. One has sensed that even the outbreak of the Third World War would not interrupt some series.

These sermons address a world in crisis, applying truth to the bread and butter of people's lives. War (or any other outward disaster) is allowed, argues Lloyd-Jones, so that society might bear the consequences of its sin, come to a clearer understanding of what sin is, and then, as with the Prodigal Son, have opportunity to be restored to a loving God. In our day, it might be war in Europe, a train crash in India killing hundreds, or something more personal in its consequences that causes us to ask: 'Why?' But the Lloyd-Jones argument still holds good and this little book - all the more valuable because it was unknown to me - addresses these sorts of issues head on.

Robert Amess