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The first six years at Evangelical Times

Evangelical Times was launched in February 1967, four months after the much-discussed division between Martyn Lloyd-Jones and John Stott.

We look back and hear more from ET’s founding editor, Peter Masters.

During the 1960s tension built among evangelicals as to whether ministers and churches should leave broadly liberal denominations to associate in congregations of believers.

Congregationalist Lloyd-Jones was increasingly discussing separation at the Puritan Studies Conference he organised with Anglican J. I. Packer and at his Westminster Fellowship Fraternal.

In 1963, Lloyd-Jones quoted the Independent, John Owen, to show ‘the duty of every saint of God’ was to withdraw from a church where ‘notorious, scandalous sins had gone unpunished, unreproved’.

In 1965, Lloyd-Jones dismissed arguments against separatism as ‘sheer lack of faith in the power of the Holy Spirit’ in favour of ‘trusting to expediency’