The Gospel Focus of Charles Spurgeon (A Long Line of Godly Men Profile)

by Steven J. Lawson

the gospel message is to be preached to every creature because it is commanded in God’s Word.

had drunk deeply from the wells of Scripture.

He spoke the language of Scripture itself,

The teaching of the Reformation had all but faded from the evangelical scene.

preach the sovereignty of God in His dispensation of grace;

nor can I comprehend the Gospel which allows saints to fall away after they are called.3

Murray writes: “The strength of Spurgeon’s ministry lay in his theology. He rediscovered what the church had largely forgotten—the evangelistic power of so-called ‘Calvinistic’ doctrine. … Spurgeon looked upon these truths as the driving force of a Gospel ministry.

the gospel never shines brighter than through the lens of the doctrines of grace.

radical corruption.

It is either a slave of sin or a slave of Christ, but never free.

“If Christ was not God, we are not Christians.”14