So there are a great many things to which, if any mere mortal today were to try them in Spurgeon’s name, the title of this post would make a sufficient response. Here are a few examples: “I know I’m only 16 and I’ve only been saved for one year, but I want to get up and preach a sermon. After all, that’s what Spurgeon did.”

The best three-word non-explanation explanation I’ve ever heard, for the phenomenon that was Charles Haddon Spurgeon, is this: freak of grace.

God worked in Spurgeon in a very unique way and, while his faith and core convictions are such as should be embraced and emulated, many of his personal idiosyncrasies should not be. It isn’t that they were necessarily  wrong; it is simply that… well, they worked for him. And you and I are not him. Dude, friend, my brother — we are so not him!

So there are a great many things to which, if any mere mortal today were to try them in Spurgeon’s name, the title of this post would make a sufficient response. Here are a few examples:

• “I know I’m only 16 and I’ve only been saved for one year, but I want to get up and preach a sermon. After all, that’s what Spurgeon did.”

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