Lloyd-Jones and 1966, Fifty Years On: A personal reflection

Over the last fifty years the events of 18th October 1966 have acquired legendary status amongst conservative evangelicals in Wales. I was born nearly nine years after those events, but as a young Christian in North Wales, Martyn Lloyd-Jones and his call for gospel unity still shaped my evangelical identity – the churches I knew had been fundamentally influenced by his call for evangelical unity, and the ministers I respected were shaped by that event and the repercussions that followed.

As a...