{"id":1203,"date":"2013-06-04T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2013-06-04T21:59:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T02:59:55","slug":"d-martyn-lloyd-jones-greatest-preacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=1203","title":{"rendered":"D MARTYN LLOYD-JONES: GREATEST PREACHER?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I don’t know how many times I have heard someone say, “Lloyd-Jones is the greatest preacher of the twentieth-century.”\u00a0 It is said with conviction.\u00a0 It is said with certainty.\u00a0 It is supposedly a self-evident fact.
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No doubt the good doctor was impressive in many ways, but it is not possible for any human to say “he is the greatest.”\u00a0 First, what are our criteria?\u00a0 Second, who can know another man’s motives?\u00a0 And third, one would have to be aware of every single other preacher to make such an assessment, and who knows that except God?!<\/strong><\/p>\n

I read recently where someone said preachers need to stop introducing their wives as the most beautiful which indeed is good counsel.\u00a0 I would like to extend that to preachers and everyone else for that matter.
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I don’t know how many times I have heard someone say, “Lloyd-Jones is the greatest preacher of the twentieth-century.”\u00a0 It is said with conviction.\u00a0 It is said with certainty.\u00a0 It is supposedly a self-evident fact. No doubt the good doctor was impressive in many ways, but it is not possible for any human to say […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preaching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}