Charles Spurgeon’s Passion for His City

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Life is too short, hell is too real, and eternity is too long not to live with a relentless passion for God’s global mission. Charles H. Spurgeon had this passion, and he challenged Christ-followers to have this passion as well:

The world is dying! The graves are filling! Hell is boasting, and yet you have the gospel! Can it be that you do not care to win souls, do not care whether men are damned or saved? The Lord wake us from this stony-hearted barbarity to our fellow men, and make us yearn over them, care about them, pray about them, and work for them till the Lord shall arise and send forth laborers into His harvest!

Charles H. Spurgeon Loved His City

Next to prayer for more workers (Luke 10:2), the greatest need in the world today is surrendered, sold-out followers of Jesus who have an intense passion for the mission of God. What does it look like to have this kind of passion? According to Spurgeon, it’s a willingness to do whatever it takes to reach people for Christ:

“If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms around their knees, imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.”

Passion for the mission of God led Spurgeon and his church to saturate the city of London with the life-changing gospel of Jesus. To Spurgeon, London was “in some respects the very heart of the world,” and a city in desperate need of more laborers and new churches. His passion was to see kingdom growth in his great city:

For our own part we cannot live if Christ’s kingdom does not grow. We hunger and thirst to see men saved. How can they hear without a preacher? The preacher must be sent among them, and they must be evangelized, and then churches will be formed, from which the light will be yet further spread.

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