Tim Keller surveys Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones argument for the primacy of preaching. An excerpt:
The Doctor’s basic case has been made. Preaching must convey the truths of the gospel as the basis for all Christian practice. It must arise out of the Biblical text to show that the message is from God. It should be heard in person in an assembled community. And preaching “sets up” everything else—it creates regenerated agents of justice in the world, it provides the material with which Christians counsel and disciple one another and which equips believers to share their faith with others.
But Lloyd-Jones has one more objection . . .
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