Daryl Dash explains how D. Martyn Llodyd-Jones believes that a reluctance to preach on the wrath of God resulted in increasingly empty churches.
Lloyd-Jones preached a different message, as seen in this address:
First and foremost we are face to face with the fact of the wrath of God…God has decided and ordered and arranged that a life of forgetfulness of Him, and antagonism to Him, shall not be successful and happy. Cursing falls upon such a way of life. The facts of life, the story of history, proclaim the wrath of God against all ungodliness and unrighteousness. We have sinned against God…
It is as the idea of judgment and the wrath of God have fallen into the background that our churches have become increasingly empty. The idea has gained currency that the love of God somehow covers everything, and that it matters very little what we may do, because the love of God puts everything right at the end. The more the Church has accommodated her message to suit the palate of the people the greater has been the decline in attendance at places of worship.
This is a very good example of God-centered versus human-centered preaching.
Read it all here.
