The Principality of Wales is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and, like its Scottish and Northern Irish counterparts, has people who have a fiercely nationalistic outlook.

Since the 1700s, when the Welsh Calvinist Methodist fathers were at their spiritual height, this western region of the UK has been visited by the Lord in revival. These visits dispelled the spiritual darkness that then existed. The ministries of such men as Daniel Rowland, Howell Harris, William Williams, Evan Roberts, and not least John Jones of Talsarn, were notable in this great work. In the early 20th century, Wales was again plunged into spiritual darkness and religious formality, despite the many churches and chapels that were scattered across the country.

In the early 1900s, God blessed the earth again, but, as with all revivals of vital religion, this one too cooled off, resulting in the takeover of the churches by what has become. described as a ‘remnant pseudo-evangelicalism’. .’ All the external trappings of evangelicalism were there, but not the life. Like the church in Sardis in the 90s AD, the church on this earth had a name for being alive but it was dead.

The Lloyd-Jones family belonged to the Welsh Calvinist Methodist Church in Llangeitho. The Connexion can trace its beginnings to the mid-1700s, when the Christian churches in Britain split into two main groups: the Arminians under John Wesley (1703-1791) were the Methodists, and the Calvinists under George Whitefield (1714-1770). they were the Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and Baptists. Both groups faced their own particular problems. The Methodists emphasized the free will of men and ignored the need for depraved men to be sovereignly regenerated by God’s effectual call. Calvinists also faced challenges; while emphasizing the sovereignty of God in salvation, they degenerated into a hyper-Calvinism in which there was no longer any gospel for a lost humanity. They denied the free offer of salvation to all men through Christ the Savior of the world, thereby marginalizing the need for evangelism and missions.

The church minister at Llangeitho encouraged the three Lloyd-Jones boys to join the church as members in 1914. This denomination had grown cold spiritually, and during Martyn’s childhood and adolescence much of the lives of the revivals of 1904/5 had become a dim memory. The religion in which they were raised was spiritually lifeless, and this had a negative effect on the three boys.

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