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with a note of urgency. Lloyd-Jones quoted the Apostle
Paul, stating that his words gave "a very perfect
summary" of the evangelistic message.2.
'They themselves shew of us what manner of
entering we had unto you, and how ye turned to
God from idols to serve the living and true
God; And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom
he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which
delivered us from the wrath to come' (I Thes.
1:9-10).
Lloyd-Jones did not preach evangelism exclusively;
he commended a balance between edification ("didache")
and evangelistic ("kerygma") preaching. 2s. (Lloyd-
Jones himself generally followed the pattern of preaching
'edification' in Sunday morning services and 'evangelism'
in the evening.)
He further divided his edification preaching into
two categories: "experimental" and "instructional."2
In the first type of sermon, the preacher offers the
believer practical instructions, "moral and ethical
principles" on living the Christian life day to day,
primarily as it applies to unique individuals...27
Lloyd-Jones's sermons published in a book entitled
Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures would follow
this model. This book contains sermons describing
patterns of individual life which produce unhappiness and
antidotes which restore joy.11e
Instructional sermons focus on the social and even
the cosmic aspects of the faith; God's will, not only for
the individual, but for all humanity. Another
volume of Lloyd-Jones's sermons, Prove All Things: The