This is as good a time as any to set the record straight. This month sees the 30th anniversary of the events of October 1966 which were to prove so significant for evangelicalism in this country.
The popular reading of what happened at the Central Hall, London, on October 18 is that the late Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones dealt a blow to evangelical unity from which it has never recovered. Isn't that what you have been led to believe?
Even this year Clive Calver and Rob Warner have furthered this misconception by their treatment of this incident in Together we Stand (Hodder), a book published to mark the 150th anniversary of the Evangelical Alliance. The Doctor's call is misrepresented as being for 'a single united evangelical church' (p. 127) and his 'fiery rhetoric' is painted as 'impassioned eloquence. . . in the heat of the moment' (p. 65).
