If you have followed this blog for very long at all then you know that I am a proponent of Sola Scriptura in the teaching and preaching of God’s Word as the ONLY way to be doctrinally correct which is vital for the health of the church and for the making of disciples who are genuine rather than what is culturally correct in our day which is what many call “Easy Believism.” I prefer to call those disingenuous professing Christians “Cultural Christians.” Now, with that said, we must come to understand two things. How does God save us and what is our part in it? With that out there we must then come to understand what our part in evangelism should be. Right?…
Let us look at how Charles Spurgeon came to Christ in his own words. I believe that there will be some reading this who will recognize how they came to Christ as well. The circumstances will undoubtedly be different, but how God works to save you and I will be the same. Then there will those who are in doubt that their profession of faith is genuine because of being immature spiritually, that is, a lack of sanctification or personal holiness. There may also be some who are religious but really have no genuine testimony of coming to faith in Jesus Christ. This testimony by Spurgeon will help all of us for that is its purpose.
Personally, I have to bless God for many good books; I thank Him for Dr. Doddridge’s Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul; for Baxter’s Call to the Unconverted; for Alleine’s Alarm to Sinners; and for James’s Anxious Enquirer; but my gratitude most of all is due to God, not for books, but for the preached Word, — and that too addressed to me by a poor, uneducated man, a man who had never received any training for the ministry, and probably will never be heard of in this life, a man engaged in business, no doubt of a humble kind, during the week, but who had just enough of grace to say on the Sabbath, “Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth.”