Wide Open Door for Preaching the Gospel

"Is not this then the very time when the door is wide open for the preaching of the Gospel? 

The age in which we are living is so similar to the first century in many respects.  The old world was exhausted then.  The flowering period of Greek philosophy had come and had gone, Rome in a sense had passed her zenith, and there was the same kind of tiredness and weariness, with consequent turning to pleasure and amusement. 

The same is so true today; and so far from saying that we must have less preaching and turn more and more to other devices and expedients, I say that we have a heaven-sent opportunity for preaching."

From Preaching and Preachers by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones.