Philip Arthur Bence PhD Thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText

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close of the nineteenth century, became one of the great
English preachers of the twentieth century.' A
Welshman by birth, Lloyd-Jones, along with his family,
moved to London when he was fifteen. (Ironically, the
family moved to within easy walking distance of
Westminister Chapel, where Lloyd-Jones would later so
distinguish himself.) Always an excellent student,
Lloyd-Jones studied medicine in university. Finding
success there, he quickly rose to the position of Chief
Clinical Assistant to the King's Physician at St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, London.
Although a church-goer all his life, Lloyd-Jones
experienced a significant spiritual conversion in his
mid-twenties and soon left medicine for preaching. He
returned to Wales (without any formal theological
education) for an eleven year pastorate, before accepting
a call to the pulpit of Westminster Chapel. Forty years
later, Lloyd-Jones finally left that pulpit for a
retirement of writing and lecturing.
Throughout his preaching, Lloyd-Jones emphasized the
fact of man's sinfulness and need for salvation. These
two thoughts summarize both the content and purpose of
his preaching. "The church has always triumphed and had
her greatest successes when she has preached the two-fold
message of the depravity of human nature and the absolute
necessity of the direct intervention of God for its final
salvation."2.
Sin, according to Lloyd-Jones, went far deeper than