Required reading
Lectures to my students by Charles Spurgeon (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read Chapter 2 (The necessity of ministerial progress).
My summary
Today Spurgeon teaches us the necessity of progressing as a minister.
He exhorts us to go forward in:
(i) mental acquirements;
(ii) oratorical qualifications;
(iii) moral qualities;
(iv) spiritual qualifications;
(v) actual work;
(vi) the choice of our sphere of action.
What grabbed me
A great chapter.
I loved the encouragement to just 'do something': 'Brethren, do something; do something; do something. While committees waste their time over resolutions, do something. While Societies and Unions are making constitutions, let us win souls. Too often we discuss, and discuss, and discuss, and Satan laughs in his sleeve. It is time we had done planning and sought something to plan. I pray you: be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men. Old Suwarrow’s idea of war is mine: “Forward and strike! No theory! Attack! Form column: Charge bayonets! Plunge into the center of the enemy.” Our one aim is to save sinners, and this we are not to talk about, but to do in the power of God. '
Don't daydream - get things done!
Next week's reading
Read Chapter 3 (The need of decision for the truth).
Now it's your turn
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