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8月 钟马田 August - Martyn Lloyd-Jones

一代解经大师钟马田


  "钟马田医生是廿世纪英语世界中最杰出的传道人之一,这是毋庸置疑的。像我们这些有幸得以亲自聆听他讲道的人,至今都很难忘记当他沉浸在福音的光中,靠着神的大能说话时,我们的心灵所感受到的震撼。然而事实上并不是他这个人萦绕在我们心中不去,也不是属人的恩赐或知识上的才能,或他个人的吸引力给我们留下深刻的印象。是真理的能力、神的伟大、人的贫乏和圣经的荣耀启示及权柄,在所有听众的心版上留下了难以磨灭的记忆"

  -- Eric J Alexander


  钟马田牧师于一八九九年十二月廿日生于英国南威尔斯,他在小学读书时已表现得相当优异,并立志将来要当医生。廿二岁那年,钟氏于圣巴德医学院毕业,得到内科与外科医学的双重荣誉奖。不久之后,旋即考入皇家医师协会为会员,担任皇室的御医之一。

  正当他在医学界的声誉如日中天之际,他却开始考虑出来传道的可能性。有几个因素影响他做此决定。他说:"传道是人类所有呼召中最崇高、最伟大、最荣耀的呼召虽然我做基督徒已有多年,但事实上,我从前充其量只能算是一个经常参加教会礼拜的会友罢了。"他开始认真严肃地面对自己的基督徒生命,并且深刻体会到若离了神,人生实在是虚幻无用。特别是他从那些上流社会的权贵病患者身上看到,这些人的生命难题往往是道德上的,而不是医学上的。此外,他也在心中深深觉知自己是罪人,没有价值,并且确信神在基督里已经赦免了他。一九二七年,他毅然决然辞去了高薪的医职,投入全时间的传道工作,在长老会担任牧师达十年之久。

  一九三九年,他正式接受伦敦西敏寺教会的邀请,担任坎伯摩根(G. Campbell Morgan)的副牧。五年之后摩根退休,他成为该堂的唯一牧师。他一共在该教会牧养了卅多年之久,每主日早晚讲道一次。另外每周五晚上的查经,也吸引了无数渴慕真道的人。

  钟氏具有超卓独特的领悟力和属灵洞见,他的讲道揉合了生动的口才和逻辑的论理,其深奥使一个最成熟的听众也必须伫足沉思,其简明使一个孩童也能领悟明白。他最大的特长是根据一卷圣经,详细加以阐释解说,往往一章经文就可以讲上数月或数年之久。史庄(Robert Strong)曾评论道:"钟马田是这方面解经的佼佼者,不但立论平实可行,而且不失其学术的严谨性。"然而反观今天教会界,这类系统解经式的讲道却已逐渐式微。我们实在需要重新回到神话语的真理上去解释它、传扬它,并让它来改变我们的生命与生活。诚如钟马田医生所说:"如果对基督的工作只有肤浅的认识,那么所产生出来的基督徒生命也必然是肤浅的。"

  钟马田的许多讲章后来被整理成书,译成多国文字,从此世界各地的信徒均得蒙造就。他的著作包括《登山宝训》、《罗马书》、《以弗所书》(已由美国活泉陆续出版)、
《再思历史的主》 、《人的处境与神的能力》、《只夸基督十架》、《救恩的确据--约翰福音十七章信息》(美国活泉)、《灵性低潮》(证主)、《从恐惧到信靠--哈巴谷书研究》(校园)、《当代复兴真义》(校园)、 《旧约福音讲章》、《不可言喻的喜乐--认识圣灵的洗》(校园)等,其中一套八册的《以弗所书》,更是他毕生解经讲道中最完整、最详尽也最广为人知的一系列讲章。另外一套《罗马书》的信息也极为精彩,只可惜还未完结,钟马田牧师已离开人世,安息主怀,实在是后世信徒的一大损失。

  在此我们追述钟马田牧师其人其事,但愿神丰丰富富地使用这些篇章,激励我们以认识神、敬畏神为乐,重新渴慕解经式的讲道,并更新我们对基督的爱。

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David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (20 December 1899 – 1 March 1981) was a Welsh Protestant minister and preacher who was influential in the Reformed wing of the British evangelical movement in the 20th century. For almost 30 years, he was the minister of Westminster Chapel in London. Lloyd-Jones was strongly opposed to the liberal theology that had become a part of many Christian denominations, regarding it as aberrant. He disagreed with the broad church approach and encouraged evangelical Christians (particularly Anglicans) to leave their existing denominations, taking the view that true Christian fellowship was only possible amongst those who shared common convictions regarding the nature of the faith.

Early life and ministry
Lloyd-Jones was born in Cardiff and raised in Llangeitho, Ceredigion. Llangeitho is associated with the Welsh Methodist revival, as it was the location of Daniel Rowland's ministry. Attending a London grammar school between 1914 and 1917 and then St Bartholomew's Hospital as a medical student, in 1921 he started work as assistant to the Royal Physician, Sir Thomas Horder. After struggling for two years over what he sensed was a calling to preach, in 1927 Lloyd-Jones returned to Wales, having married Bethan Phillips (with whom he later had two children, Elizabeth and Ann), accepting an invitation to minister at a church in Aberavon (Port Talbot).

Westminster Chapel
After a decade ministering in Aberavon, in 1939 he went back to London, where he had been appointed as associate pastor of Westminster Chapel, London, working alongside G. Campbell Morgan. The day before he was officially to be accepted into his new position, World War II broke out in Europe. During the same year, he became the president of the Inter-Varsity Fellowship of Students (known today as the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UK)). During the war he and his family moved to Haslemere, Surrey. In 1943 Morgan retired, leaving Jones as the sole Pastor of Westminster Chapel.

Lloyd-Jones was well-known for his expository style of preaching, and the Sunday morning and evening meetings at which he officiated drew crowds of several thousand, as did the Friday evening Bible studies – which were, in effect, sermons in the same style. He would take many months – even years – to expound a chapter of the Bible verse by verse. His sermons would often be around fifty minutes to an hour in length, attracting many students from universities and colleges in London. His sermons were also transcribed and printed (virtually verbatim) in the weekly Westminster Record, which was read avidly by those who enjoyed his preaching.

Later life
Lloyd-Jones retired from his ministry at Westminster Chapel in 1968, following a major operation. He spoke of a belief that God had stopped him from continuing to preach through the New Testament book of the Letter to the Romans in his Friday evening Bible study exposition because he did not personally know enough about "joy in the Holy Spirit" which was to be his next sermon (based on Romans 14:17). For the rest of his life he concentrated on editing his sermons to be published, counselling other ministers, answering letters and attending conferences. Perhaps his most famous publication is a 14 volume series of commentaries on the Epistle to the Romans, the first volume of which was published in 1970.

Despite spending most of his life living and ministering in England, Lloyd-Jones was proud of his roots in Wales. He best expressed his concern for his home country through his support of the Evangelical Movement of Wales: he was a regular speaker at their conferences,[4] preaching in both English and Welsh. Since his death, the movement has published various books, in English and Welsh, bringing together selections of his sermons and articles.

Lloyd-Jones preached for the last time on 8 June 1980 at Barcombe Baptist Chapel. After a lifetime of work, he died peacefully in his sleep at Ealing on 1 March 1981, St David's Day. He was buried at Newcastle Emlyn, near Cardigan, west Wales. A well-attended thanksgiving service was held at Westminster Chapel on 6 April.

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