Last week I wrote about a document I keep on the desktop of my computer entitled, “My Motivation.” It is designed to remind and inspire and focus me toward Christ-centered living, but it’s comprised of pictures rather than words. Nine of the fifteen pictures are of various men of God who inspire me for a number of reasons, the first of whom is Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones. Dr. Jones is most well known for his long-tenure as the Pastor of Westminster Chapel in London where he faithfully taught the Bible for some thirty years. And indeed, the primary reason he appears in my personal “Hall of Faith” is because of his long and uncompromised commitment to preaching the Word of God, on its own terms, in the prominent worship services of the church. He received much criticism for this stalwart devotion and much pressure to teach the Bible in a more culturally relevant manner, but he never bowed to such pressure. Rather, as a true lover of God and servant of the church, he clung to the Word of...
Worship. Community. Mission.