Charles Spurgeon


Charles Spurgeon“A good character is the best tombstone…Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.” Charles SpurgeonEMBRACE THE GRACE OF1) DIVINE DISCONTENTMENT....I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on…Never content with personal righteousness.“Sin, whatever it might be to other people, became to me, an intolerable burden.” Charles Spurgeon“Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.” Charles SpurgeonNever content with personal effectiveness.2) SURVIVING CRITICISM.…When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly.Criticized for:•Being too young•Undo familiarity with God•Standing against slavery•Preaching too much Jesus•Rejecting traditionalismBlessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven…“If the world abuses me I am a match for that, I begin to like it. It may fire all its big guns at me, [but] I will not return a solitary shot. [I’ll] just store them up and grow rich upon the old iron.” Charles SpurgeonSpurgeon’s Motto: Cedo Nulli – “I yield to none.”3) MULTIPLYING MINISTRY.…anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.“The practice of preaching three times on the Lord’s Day was the devil’s invention for killing ministers…No man can afford to do this.” One of Spurgeon’s church leadersMinistry Faith Secrets:•Praying faith•Saving faith•Empowering faith“Make me Thy faithful servant, O my God; may I honor Thee in my day and generation, and be consecrated forever to Thy service.” Charles Spurgeon“Whosoever believeth in the name of Jesus Christ shall be saved. Sin is no barrier. Thy guilt is no obstacle. Whosoever believes, shall have every sin forgiven…shall have every iniquity blotted out, shall be saved in the Lord Jesus Christ, and shall stMore Spurgeon Facts: •?Established London’s 6000-seat Metropolitan Tabernacle•?Launched Pastor’s College•?Reformed social norms and helped the poor, including the foundation of an orphanage•?Preached from every chapter in the Bible except

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