This is the third in a series of articles written by Adam Ramsey of Liberti Church, Gold Coast, Australia, exploring what we can learn from Martyn Lloyd-Jones today in relation to the Reformed faith and a Scriptural understanding of spiritual experience. The essays, of which there are five in total, need to be taken together. They are taken from original, yet-to-be published research undertaken by Ramsey for his Doctor of Philosophy thesis. They also, we hope, represent something of the generous-hearted, thoughtful, Biblical approach that en was founded 40 years ago in 1986 to embody. Read Ramsey's first article here and his second article here. Next month: “Why Martyn Lloyd-Jones was not a charismatic.”
Martyn Lloyd-Jones did not categorise himself as a cessationist, at least not in the sense articulated by evangelicals like B.B. Warfield, whose reading of the New Testament and church history excluded the continuation of the gifts of the Spirit beyond the apostolic age.
