Dr.
Lloyd-‐Jones
The
first
chapter
documents
the
witness
of
Dr.
Lloyd-‐Jones,
a
discerning
and
far-‐seeing
leader
whom
God
raised
up
for
the
times.
His
anointed
preaching
during
the
1960s
onwards
clarified
these
issues.
Through
his
leadership
in
the
1960s
and
1970s,
the
BEC
became,
for
evangelicals,
the
counterpart
to
the
World
Council
of
Churches
(WCC),
and
the
church
fellowship
of
those
days
the
counterpart
to
the
EM.
Believers
knew
where
they
stood
concerning
the
gospel,
what
a
Christian
is,
and
what
a
Christian
church
is.
These
were
the
issues
at
stake,
and
were
faithfully
contended
for
against
the
Church
of
Rome,
liberalism,
and
false
ecclesiastical
unity.
New
Evangelicalism
The
six
pages
of
Chapter
26
give
an
incisive
little
history
of
the
rise
of
New
Evangelicalism
during
the
1940s
in
the
USA.
That
movement
repudiated
separation
from
liberals
and
from
the
social
gospel.
It
led
to
theological
seminaries
and
churches
being
involved
with
enemies
of
truth
up
to
their
necks.
E.J.
Poole-‐Connor,
founder
of
the
FIEC,
declared,
“The
‘New
Evangelicalism’
that
had
arisen
was
a
departure
from
the
old.
It
stood
for
‘infiltration’
and
not
‘separation.’”
Tragically,
infiltration
developed
into
participation
and
ultimately
imitation.
It
came
to
the
UK
via
the
Billy
Graham
evangelistic
rallies
and
his
accepting
the
sponsorship
of
liberals
and
apostates.
Thus,
the
issue
of
separation
became
clouded
by
the
pressing
concerns
of
evangelism.
The
rise
of
New
Evangelicalism
was
followed
in
1948
by
the
founding
of
the
WCC
–
a
date
surely
not
unrelated
to
what
preceded
it.
Three
chapters
The
following
three
chapters
–
The
Ecumenical
Movement
and
the
WCC,
The
attitude
of
Dr.
Lloyd-‐Jones
and
the
BEC
towards
it,
and
The
Scriptural
necessity
for
believers
and
the
BEC
to
separate
from
the
WCC
and
apostate
denominations
and
organisations7
–
complete
what
is
really
the
first
half
of
the
booklet.
These
pages
leave
us
in
no
doubt
about
the
apostasy
of
the
EM,
and
the
impossibility
of
professed
evangelicals
being
involved
with
it.
Dr.
Lloyd-‐Jones’
trenchant
phrase
“guilt
by
association”
was
criticised
even
back
in
1967
by
some,
but
far
from
retracting
it
he
was
to
assert
by
1974
that
what
he
saw
as
implicit
then
was
now
explicit.8
More
testimonies
from
Christian
leaders
follow,
together
with
supporting
scriptures,
to
show
that
the
duty
of
separation
from
errorists
is
as
clear
as
the
duty
to
separate
from
sin.
The
facts
here
are
undeniable,
except
for
those
who
wish
to
re-‐write
this
history.
That
later
writers
have
engaged
in
historical
revisionism
is
documented
in
one
of
the
articles
mentioned
earlier,
the
July-‐
September
2001
issue
of
the
Bible
League
Quarterly
and
also
Sword
&
Trowel
2000
No
2.
Second
half
The
second
half
of
the
booklet
covers
Chapters
6-‐9.9
Here,
the
author
shows
that
BEC’s
successor
–
Affinity
–
does
not
stand
in
the
same
clear-‐cut
separatist
tradition.
Looking
back,
this
outcome
is