created. Relying for so long on their ancestors’ considerable legacy, many churches could not feel the foundation crumbling beneath them. Despite his myriad pleas, Lloyd-Jones never persuaded the bulk of evangelicals to pursue the God who can do in a moment what incremental organization can hardly accomplish in half a century. “And content with that, we spend our lives in busy activism, instead of pausing to realize the possibilities, instead of realizing our own failure, and realizing that we are
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