D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The Personal Element
If we neglect the personal element in the Christian faith, we will go wrong all along the line. It is personal in the matter of our original salvation. You are not saved in crowds; you are saved individually. We come to a personal knowledge of God; we have personal dealings with God. It was a sad and sorry day in the history of the Christian church when the Emperor Constantine took the Roman Empire into the Christian church. She has never really recovered from that. You cannot be saved in families; you cannot be saved in countries; you cannot be saved in whole churches. Conversion may happen to a number of people in the same service, but it is always intensely personal and individual. So conforming to a certain moral or ethical pattern does not make you a Christian. There must be a personal encounter with Jesus Christ, personal dealing, personal knowledge.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones (The Possibilities of the Christian Life)
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