In 1965 a short book of testimonies appeared. It included this from Lloyd-Jones
Why am I a Christian?
There is no difficulty whatsoever about answering this question. I am a Christian solely and entirely because of the grace of God and not because of anything that I have thought or said or done. It was He who by His Holy Spirit quickened me and awakened me to the realization of certain profound and vital truths taught in the Bible. He brought me to know that I was ‘dead in trespasses and sins’, a slave to the world, and the flesh, and the devil, that in me ‘dwelleth no good thing’, and that I was under the wrath of God and heading for eternal punishment. He brought me to see that the real cause of all my troubles and ills, and that of all men, was an evil and fallen nature which hated God and loved sin. My trouble was not only that I did things that were wrong but that I myself was wrong at the very centre of my being. This led me to the realization that I was helpless as well as hopeless, for ‘Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?’ All moral teaching and moral effort were useless for God demands perfection. I could not atone for my past sins, and I could not please God in the present, or hope to do so in the future. Then He revealed to me the Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of God who had come into the world ‘to seek and to save that which is lost’. He taught me that Christ had died for my sins - bearing my punishment in His death upon the Cross - and that He had also rendered a perfect obedience to God’s laws on my behalf. As a result of this God forgave me freely, and in addition imputed the righteousness of His Son to me, regarding me as if I had never sinned at all. Moreover, He created in me a new nature and made me a new man. He adopted me into His family as one of His sons, and showed me that I was a joint heir with Christ of a glorious inheritance in heaven. ‘By the grace of God I am what I am’ ‘Soli Deo Gloria’.
