"The true evangelical is always pietistic": Martyn Lloyd-Jones on pietism
Just came across this great statement about the term “pietism” by Martyn Lloyd-Jones. It is in a great book by Philip Eveson about to be published by Christian Focus on MLJ’s views of the Holy Spirit and revival.
Eveson writes that “Lloyd-Jones made short shrift of those who spoke disparagingly of pietism.” He then quotes MLJ:
I am getting very tired of evangelicals attacking pietism. I maintain that the true evangelical is always pietistic and it is the thing that differentiates him from a dead orthodoxy
I believe MLJ was a proponent of baptism in the Spirit as a distinct experience (unlike John Stott). He interrupted an expository series to mark the centenary of revival in the UK and preached a whole series on revival.
Amen!
"Against a dead orthodoxy, Pietism and Methodism, with their conventicles and revivals, always have a right to exist." —Herman Bavinck