Sixty years after the address that divided British evangelicalism, the Martyn Lloyd-Jones Trust will release the audio for the first time on October 13.
For six decades, one of the most consequential addresses in the history of British evangelicalism has been known almost entirely through the printed page. Now the voice itself can be heard. The Martyn Lloyd-Jones Trust has recovered the audio recording of "Evangelical Unity: An Appeal", the address Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones gave to the Second National Assembly of Evangelicals on the evening of 18 October 1966. The Trust will make it freely available at mljtrust.org at 8am October 13th 2026, days before the sixtieth anniversary of the evening on which it was given.
“The questions Dr. Lloyd-Jones raised have not gone away,” said Greg Jones, president of the Martyn Lloyd-Jones Trust (mljtrust.org). “Indeed, there is a strong case to be made that his message may be even more relevant today than it was when he first delivered it.”
The evening at Central Hall
The Assembly, convened by the Evangelical Alliance at Westminster Central Hall, had asked Dr Lloyd-Jones to speak on the question of church unity. The recording makes plain that he did so at the invitation of the Alliance's own commission on the subject, before which he had already given evidence. "It was the members of the commission themselves who asked me to say in public here tonight what I am now proposing to say," he told the gathering. "So it is their responsibility."
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