Writing Life: An Interview with Iain Murray
Iain H. Murray, born in Lancashire, England, in 1931 was educated in the Isle of Man and at the University of Durham. He entered the Christian ministry in 1955. He served as assistant to Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones at Westminster Chapel (1956-59) and subsequently at Grove Chapel, London (1961-69) and St. Giles Presbyterian Church, Sydney (1981-84). In intervening periods he has worked full-time with the Banner of Truth Trust, of which organisation he was the co-founder (with Jack Cullum) in 1957 and with which he remains closely connected.
For many Christians his name is synonymous with the publication of well-researched, compellingly written books on Christian history and biography. Through works which span centuries, whose subject matter can either be individual believers or entire sections of church history, Murray admirably manages to convey not merely the facts of what has happened, but the significance of those facts for contemporary Christianity, and the abiding lessons that they contain. His most recent volume is a biography of John F. MacArthur Jr. - John MacArthur: Servant of the Word and Flock .
In the following short interview [by Andrew Roycroft, Pastor of Millisle Baptist Church in Northern Ireland], Iain Murray answers some questions relating specifically to the ministry of writing, sharing some of the lessons he has learned from many years of making the lives of other believers known.
AR: Iain Murray, welcome to this interview. Could you begin by telling us something about how you yourself have been influenced by Christian biography (written by others) in your early life and ministry?
IHM: Beginning with Andrew Bonars Life of Robert M'Cheyne when I was a teenager in the British Army, biographies played a major part in forming my thinking and direction. The English language has a vast store of inspiring biographies, from all parts of the British Isles and the United States. Not that I would confine reading to evangelical biographies. When I went to University the life of Herbert E. Ryle by Maurice Fitzgerald had a profound effect on me it showed me the spiritual barrenness produced by liberal unbelief,a tragic contrast to the life of his father, J. C. Ryle. Among biographies that moved me as a young Christian I would put Edward Morgans Life of John Elias , Archibald Alexanders Life by A. A.
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