Integrating Medicine and Ministry: The Legacy of Lloyd-Jones

Lloyd-Jones brought a method when I first came to this building Dr Douglas Johnson sent me along to the conference Hall behind here and told me that I would see a medical teacher using the method of arriving at a diagnosis and discussing management but doing it in the context of Christian issues and a Christian church. [00:02:29]

I believe that he brought the microscope from the the laboratory to the stud and to the pulpit and it is my view that his Expos expository gift owed much to his dissection under the microscope of the text of scripture before he could declare it and apply it on the grand prophetic scale. [00:03:24]

His attack on Freudian psychoanalysis now anyone who is capable of writing a paperback will quote Carl POA Peter meow and others who point out that Freudian psychology is a false relig religion but Dr Lloyd Jones when he wrote his preface to the Menace of the new psychology so many years ago recognized and spoke plainly about the dangers of this movement. [00:05:00]

In his opposition to the misuse of psychology in the 30s when he was establishing himself in the ministry and in the' 40s when so many of the sermons preached by the weathercocks in the churches who reflected The Winds of psychology that were changing so rapidly Dr LY Jones stood out against turning the gospel into a sort of cheap psychology. [00:06:12]

He may have left the fame and the professional Heights of St Bartholomew's Hospital and the wealth of Harley Street and international Acclaim but in my view he had a larger and more important practice than he would otherwise have had those who came to him for counseling benefited from his enormous skill in disentangling the strands of physical psychological and spiritual aspects of their problems. [00:07:20]

His ability to do this was partly in my view because of his medical training we will never know how many owe him and his family a debt for time given in his study and on the telephone and in many different preaching Journeys that he took where he was literally sometimes besieged by those who came to him for counseling and for help. [00:07:48]

Lastly how did his medical training affect him as a person he might not have agreed with Philip's Brooks's definition that preaching was truth expressed through personality but there is some truth I think in it he deplored The Cult of Personality yet to many of us we could not fail to find him our hero and we loved him and alas we imitated him. [00:08:23]

It was in his medical training that it became true of him as Dr Andre Schlemmer said of somebody else that he was a terrible judge in regard to ideas but full of charity towards persons Dr L Jones's mind had enough intellectual power to drive several turbines it might had it not been strictly and medically trained under God's providential guidance simply have made a bigger Splash. [00:08:48]

Dr LY Jones was like his Lord content when the Common People heard him gladly but he also treated them kindly and he was good to all especially those of the household of faith in this as is much else it is true of him in the words of woodsworth that I heard him quote from this Pulpit first of all he was a type of the wise who saw but never roam true to their kindred points of heaven and home. [00:09:44]

He took a method when I first came to this building Dr Douglas Johnson sent me along to the conference Hall behind here and told me that I would see a medical teacher using the method of arriving at a diagnosis and discussing management but doing it in the context of Christian issues and a Christian church. [00:02:29]

I think that he preserved this enormous scientific knowledge and curiosity about all real advances in his field to the end it was not only saving grace that he was proud to declare but he found God's common Grace equally amazing secondly he was a counselor. [00:07:13]

He managed to drive several turbines Dr LY Jones was like his Lord content when the Common People heard him gladly but he also treated them kindly and he was good to all especially those of the household of faith in this as is much else it is true of him in the words of woodsworth that I heard him quote from this Pulpit first of all he was a type of the wise who saw but never roam true to their kindred points of heaven and home. [00:09:44]