WHY MULTIPLICATION THOUGHT

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WHY MULTIPLICATION THOUGHT?

• It is a demonstrated principle of church growth
  that Christianity gains in a society only to the
  extent that the number of existing churches is
  multiplied. Multiplication of new congregations
  of believers, then, is the normal and expected
  output of a healthy body. Engel Norton
  Whats Gone Wrong with the Harvest? pp143-44
• The third course would teach how to multiply
  congregations in North American Anglos and
  minority populations.
• Donald Effective Evangelism, p.6

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McGavran Effective Evangelism

• In our preaching let us make sure that this
  aspect of the Christian faith is repeatedly held
  before our congregations, Sunday school meetings,
  and other assemblies of the saints. To be a true
  church we must become a reproductive church. Let
  us remember that full biblical soundness and
  spiritual renewal cannot limit themselves to
  existing congregations. They must multiply
  congregations. P. 45

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Church or Surrogate Parenting

• Spurgeon made the following comment in
  1865
• Such a church, with its many agencies in
  incessant operation, becomes a power, not in this
  country merely, but in the world. Such were the
  first Churches in Corinth, in Philippi, in
  Ephesus, and in Rome. Most of these arose, as in
  the case before us, almost entirely from the
  labours of one man. Is not this then, we ask, as
  we appeal to its efficiency, as we appeal to its
  spirituality, as we appeal to its internal
  harmony, as we appeal to its development of all
  Christian gifts and graces, and as we appeal to
  its freedom from all the evils of secular
  ecclesiasticism,--Is not this the fashion after
  which the Gospel was originally designed to
  spread, and in which

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Church or surrogate (cont.)

• it can best be extended in any country and
  in any age? The combination of many Churches in
  one system of organization for the support of
  missions, both at home and abroad, may be the
  best thing when Churches are small and feeble in
  themselves but it is second best only to the
  primitive plan. It is more costly, and it
  creates a power unknown to the apostles, and
  detrimental to the liberty of individual
  churches. We admit its great utility in a
  transition state from false to genuine
  Christianity, and are thankful for its results,
  but, at the same time, we are persuaded it has
  its limits, and is chiefly valuable, as it
  restores to the Church, and multiplies its own
  centres of illumination. CHS, MT Statistics, S
  T 1 (April 1865)

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Spurgeons Conversion, pt.1

• Spurgeons describing his own salvation
  experience
• Precious is that wine which is pressed in the
  wine vat of conviction pure is that gold which
  is dug from the mines of repentance and bright
  are those pearls which are found in the caverns
  of deep distress.He who has stood before God,
  convicted and condemned with the rope about his
  neck is the man to weep with joy when he is
  pardoned, and to live to the honor of the
  Redeemer by whose blood he is cleansed. Day,
  Spurgeon, p. 58

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Spurgeons Conversion, pt. 2

• Spurgeons soteriology came out of his own
  experience
• Son of my love, he God said, you must stand
  in the sinners place you must suffer what he
  ought to have suffered you must be accounted
  guilty,I will look upon the sinner in another
  light. I will look at him as if he were Christ
  I will accept him as if he were my only-begotten
  Son, full of grace and truth. I will give him a
  crown in heaven, and I will take him to My heart
  for ever and ever. This is the way we are
  saved Being justified freely by his
  grace,.the moment he believes in Christ his
  guilt is all taken away so that, when God looks
  upon the sinnerHe looks upon with as much love
• and affection as He ever looked upon His Son.
• Spurgeon, Loves Logic, p.
  305

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Spurgeons Conversion, pt. 3

• There was, I thought, a glimpse of hope for me in
  that text. The preacher began thus My dear
  friends, this is a very simple text indeed. It
  says, Look. Now lookin dont take a great
  deal of pain.You may be the biggest fool, and
  yet you can look. A man neednt be worth a
  thousand a year to be able to look. Anyone can
  look even a child can look. But then the text
  says, Look unto Me. Ay! Said he, in broad
  Essex, many on ye are lookin to yourselves, but
  its no use lookin there. Youll never find any
  comfort in yourselves. Some look to God the
  Father. No, look to Him by-an-by. Jesus Christ
  says, Look unto Me. Some on ye say, We must
  wait for the Spirits workin. You have no
  business with that just now. Look to Christ.
  The text says, Look unto Me.
• Spurgeon, Autobiography, The Early Years,
  p. 88

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Spurgeons Conversion, pt. 4

• It does not ask your consent but it gets it.
  It does not say, will you have it? But it makes
  you willing in the day of Gods power. Not
  against your will, but it makes you willing. It
  shows you its value, and then you fall in love
  with it and straightway you run after it and
  have it.The gospel wants not your consent, it
  gets it. It knocks the enmity out of your
  heart.He makes your will turn round, and then
  you cry, Lord, save, or I perish. (1)
  
• It pleases God by the foolishness of preaching
  to accomplish his divine purposes, not because of
  the power of preaching, nor the power of the
  preacher, nor any power in those preached to, but
  because all power is given unto Christ in
  heaven and in earth, and he chooses to work by
  the teaching of the Word. (2)
• 1 Spurgeon Heaven Hell 2 Power of the Risen
  Savior

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Spurgeons Conversion, pt. 5

• I vow to glory alone in Jesus and His cross, and
  to spend my life in the extension of his cause,
  in whatsoever way He pleases. I desire to be
  sincere in this solemn profession, having but one
  object in view, and that to glorify God. Help me
  to honor Thee, and live the life of Christ on
  earth. Day, Spurgeon, p. 68
• From that first day until now, I have acted on no
  other principle but that of perfect consecration
  to the work whereunto I am called. I surrendered
  myself to my Saviour, I gave him my body, my
  soul, my spiritI gave him my talents, my
  powers,my whole manhood!....If Christ commands
  me to hold up my little finger, and I do not obey
  him, it looks like coolness in my love to him.
  Day, Spurgeon, pp. 80-81

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Spurgeons Beliefs

• The doctrines of grace, substitution, and Christ
  crucified created in him and confident gospel to
  preach
• Spurgeon stressed electing love, covenant
  security, justification by faith, effectual
  calling, and immutable faithfulness
• Grace was rich in Spurgeons mind it forgives
  all sin and fixes the affections upon Jesus and
  His service
• For Spurgeon, there was no dissonance between
  sovereign grace (election) and human
  responsibility
• Spurgeon,
  Autobiography, 3158

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Spurgeons Beliefs (cont)

• In the days of Paul it was not difficult at once,
  in one word, to give the sum and substance of the
  current theology. It was Christ Jesusbut if I
  am asked to say what is my creed, I think I must
  replyIt is Christ Jesus. My venerable
  predecessor, Dr. Gill, has left a body of
  divinity, admirable and excellent in its way
  but the body of divinity to which I would pin and
  bind myself for ever, God helping me, is not his
  system of divinity or any other human treatise,
  but Christ Jesus, who is the sum and substance of
  the gospel who is himself all theology, the
  incarnation of every precious truth, the all
  glorious personal embodiment of the way, the
  truth, and the life. Spurgeon, The First Sermon
  in the Tabernacle

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Spurgeons Beliefs--election

• But there are some who say, It is hard for God
  to choose some and leave others. Now, I will
  ask you one question. Is there any one of you
  here this morning who wishes to be holy, who
  wishes to be regenerate, to leave off sin and
  walk in holiness? Yes, there is , says some
  one, I do. Then God has elected you. But
  another says, No I dont want to be holy I
  dont want to give up my lusts and vices. Why
  should you grumble, then, that God has not
  elected you to it? For if you were elected you
  would not like it, according to your own
  confession.
• Spurgeon,
  Election, p. 75.

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Spurgeon (more on election)

• I know of nothing, nothing, again, that is more
  humbling for us than this doctrine of
  election.Why me? Why me?....moreover, election
  makes us holy.Shall I sin.after God hath chosen
  me? Spurgeon, Election
• Grace election causes one to thoroughly and
  consciously rest on Jesus Dont fancy election
  excuses sindont dream of itdont rock yourself
  in sweet complacency in the thought of your
  irresponsibility. You are responsible
  Spurgeon, Election
• Election or no election, if you are resting upon
  the rock of ages you are saved. Spurgeon
  Election No
• 
  Discouragement to Seeking Souls
• Regarding a persons confidence in his own faith
  What we want to do is to kill it once and for
  all. High Doctrine

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Spurgeon on SalvationSpurgeon The Comers
Conflict with Satan

• Remember, sinner, it is not thy hold of
  Christ that saves theeit is Christ it is not
  thy joy in Christ that saves theeit is Christ
  it is not even faith in Christ, though that is
  the instrumentit is Christs blood and merits
  therefore, look not to thy hope, but to Christ,
  the source of thy hope look not to thy faith,
  but to Christ, the author and finisher of thy
  faith and if thou doest that, ten thousand
  devils cannot throw thee down, but as long as
  thou lookest at thyself, the weakest of those
  evil spirits may tread thee beneath his feet.
  There is one thing which we all of us too much
  becloud in our preaching, though I believe we do
  it very unintentionallynamely, the great truth
  that it is not prayer, it is not faith, it is not
  our doings, it is not our feelings upon which we
  must rest, but upon Christ, and on Christ alone.

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Spurgeon on repentance

• We would not judge modern converts, but we
  certainly prefer that form of spiritual exercise
  which leads the soul by the way of the
  Weeping-cross, and makes it see its blackness
  before assuring it that it is clean every whit.
  Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore
  think lightly of the Savior. He who has stood
  before his God, convicted and condemned, with the
  rope about his neck, is the man to weep for joy
  when he is pardoned, to hate the evil which has
  been forgiven him, and to live to the honour of
  the Redeemer by whose blood he has been cleansed.
• Spurgeon,
  Autobiography, 176

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Spurgeon on the Priesthood of the Believer

• As our church recognises no distinction of
  clergy and laity.
• Spurgeon, MT Its History Work, p.55

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Spurgeon and books

• Spurgeon was characterized as an omnivorous
  reader.
• His practice was to read five to six
  difficult books each week. He said He wished to
  rub his mind against the strongest. He would
  also read magazines and journals treating the
  fields of medicine and science. This was in
  addition to Puritan and other biblical studies.
  And once he read it, the contents became
  permanently his.
• CHS, Autobiography,
  4265
• The old Puritans have more sense in one line
  than there is in a page of our new books, and
  more in one page than there is in a whole volume
  of our modern divinity.
• 
  Spurgeon, Faith

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Spurgeons advice on reading

• The next rule I shall lay down is, master those
  books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in
  them until they saturate you. Read and re-read
  them, masticate them, and digest themLet them go
  into your very self. Peruse a good book several
  times, and make notes and analy-ses of it. A
  student will find that his mental constitution is
  more affected by one book thoroughly mastered
  than by twenty books which he has merely skimmed,
  lapping at themlittle learning and much pride
  come of hasty read-ing. Books may be piled on
  the brain till it cannot work. Some men are
  disabled from their thinking by their put-ting
  meditation away for the sake of much reading.
  They gouge themselves with book-matter, and
  become men-tally dyspeptic. CHS,
  Lectures, p. 177

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Some of Spurgeons favorites

• Apples of Gold and Precious Remedies Against
  Satans Devices by Thomas Brooks
• The Objects And Acts of Justifying Faith by T
  Goodwin
• The Glories of Christ, The Death of Death in the
  Death of Christ, The Holy Spirit, and Hebrews by
  John Owen
• The Attributes of God by Stephen Charnock
• The Christian in Complete Armour by William
  Gurnall
• John 17 by Thomas Manton
• Mystery of Providence by John Flavel
• The Body of Divinity by Thomas Watson
• Reformed Pastor and Saints Everlasting Rest by
  Baxter
• Pilgrims Progress and The Holy War by John
  Bunyan

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Spurgeons abilities

• He kills Thomas Road goes to tavern at age five
  to rebuke grandfathers wayward member
• Meets with missionary James Knill at 6am for
  three mornings for prayer at age ten and Knill
  predicts Spurgeon will be a great preacher
• Does a paper against papacy at age ten
• Writes 295pp Popery Unmasked at 14
• Can argue vs. himself in debate forums
• Most popular English speaker after coming to New
  Park Street, London
• Sermons translated sent around worldsome say
  40 different languages 100K in England alone
  500K were sold weekly after his death

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Spurgeons monomania

• To preach the Gospeland to train others to do
  it, is my lifes object and aim. Pike, 361
• Lives with many aims are like water trickling
  through innumerable streams, none of which are
  wide enough or deep enough to float the merest
  cockleshell of a boat but a life with one object
  is like a mighty river flowing be-tween its
  banks, bearing to the ocean a multitude of ships,
  and spreading fertility on either side.
• Spurgeon, Soul
  Winner, pg. 249
• God sparing my life, I will not rest till the
  dark country of Surrey be filled with places of
  worship. It is only within the last six months
  we have started two churchesand we will do so to
  the hundredth time, God being our helper. Pike,
  2313, 316

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Spurgeon on evangelism

• Spurgeon said of Matthew 936-37, This text is
  laid on my heart it lies more on my heart than
  any other in the Bible it is one that haunts me
  perpetually, and hasfor many years.
• Spurgeon Harvest
  Men Wanted
• Speaking to his Pastors College students on
  evangelism Let this be your choice work while
  studying, and let it be the one object of your
  lives when you go forth from us.
• Spurgeon, The
  Soul-Winner, p. 225
• Devotional habits are cultivated to the
  utmost...students are urged to do as much
  evangelistic work as they can.
• Spurgeon, The MT History
  and Work, p. 100

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The Lay Preachers Association

• Endeavour to maintainthe Lay Preachers
  Association. I
• might have preached without it, but that
  Association in
• Cambridge offered me opportunities of preaching
  every
• night in the week,I am sure that the Lay
  Preachers
• Associations assist young men very materially,
  and help
• greatly to supply the pulpits with those men who
  will after-
• wards carry on the work. We ought not to have a
  single
• church without a strong back of preaching men.
  We must
• have very many, and indeed we must encourage more
  to
• preach. I believe there are a great many men who
  do very
• much service by preaching whom you and I would
  not like
• to hear, but whom God will bless
  Pike, 539

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MTs Farm System

• The Evangelists Association (MTs LPA) and
  Tabernacle
• County Mission provided ministry involvement and
  experi-
• ence for the MT members. Many young men first
  began to
• preach the gospel through these organizations.
  These
• ministries were under the leadership of dedicated
  lay lead-
• ers. Spurgeon, Others of the elders have also
  exercised a
• most gracious ministry in various parts of the
  metropolis,
• and in the home counties, through the agency of
  the Taber-
• nacle Country Mission and Evangelists
  Association. Many
• churches, that are now self-supporting and
  flourishing,
• were started in a very humble fashion by the
  brethren con-
• nected with one or other of these two useful
  societies.
• 
  CHS, Auto, 325

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MT Farm System (continued)

• In 1881 the Evangelists Assoc owned and operated
  603 preaching stations each Sun
• Another 728 preaching stations were either
  borrowed or rented, but still manned by MT lay
  preachers
• There were also 131 open-air meetings
• Preachers in both organizations gave their time
  w/o rumuneration helped pay rent
• 49 Bible schools served by MT members on Sundays
• Spurgeon said these organizations helped provide
  godly mendiscover fields of usefulness, and
  prepare themselves for them.
• Spurgeon, Notes Sword and
  Trowel 17
• (September 1881)
  486

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Elders Deacons

• CHS taught on the elders role along with
  dea-cons for five yrs, then MT accepted 1.12.1859
• Our elders, now sustained by twenty-six
  brethren, is a source of much blessing to our
  church. Without the efficient and self-denying
  labours of the Elders we should never be able to
  supervise our huge church, containing at the
  close of the year 1868, 3,860 members, and from
  which, under the present, about an equal number
  have gone to the church triumphant, or to other
  parts of the church militant.
• Spurgeon, The MT its History and Work,
  p. 89

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Evening Classes

• The church at the Tabernacle continues to furnish
  a
• large quota of men, and as these have usually
  been educa-
• ted for two or more years in our Evening Classes,
  they are
• more advanced and better able to profit by our
  two years of
• study. We have no difficulty in finding spheres
  for men who
• are ready and fitted for them. There is no
  reason to believe
• that the supply of trained ministers is in
  advance of the
• demand.These evening classes afford an
  opportunity to
• Christian men engaged during the day to obtain an
  educa-
• tion for nothing during their leisure time, and
  very many
• avail themselves of the privilege. MT History,
  pp.100-01
• 150 young business men who were receiving
  instruction in the Evening classes. Pike,
  316, 1862 (200 in 76)

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Planting Philosophy

• Spurgeon guided his Pastors College men to plant
  churches by using means effective to that
  situation. He taught flexibility and to look for
  responsive fields.
• He said the policy in planting churches was like
  a florist Plant a lot of slips hoping that
  some of them will strike.
• CHS, Report of the College Work In
  and Around
• London, Sword and Trowel, May 1878
• Our plan in London has been to do very little
  where we could not do much to open many rooms,
  and to start many small communities in hope that
  some of them would like to become self-supporting
  churches.
• Pike, 3157 Auto, 3253-54

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Spurgeon on the Pastors College

• Our one aim has been to train preachers and
  pastors. Let
• the men be scholars by all means, to their
  fullest bent, but
• first and foremost let them study their Bibles,
  hold the faith
• clearly, and know how to defend it valiantly. If
  they become
• so bookish that they cannot speak except in a
  pedantic
• latinised language, their education has failed
  if they grow
• so refined and affected that they cannot
  condescend to
• men of low estate, their learning has made them
  fools and
• If they are so fascinated by literary pursuits
  that they think
• lightly of the preaching of the gospel, they have
  missed the
• mark

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Spurgeon on PC (cont)

• but should they be rendered humble by the
  knowledge
• which they gain, should their minds be well
  stored, should
• their tongues become more fluent, and their
  thoughts more
• deep, and above all should their piety be
  strengthened and
• their graces be cultivated, it will prove an
  essential benefit
• to the men, and an immense gain to the churches,
  that they
• have passed through a college course.
• Spurgeon, The Pastors College, Sword and
  Trowel, 9146
• If learning necessarily took men off from
  dependence upon
• God we should loathe it, but so far as we can
  see,
• ignorance and self-confidence have considerably
  affinity,
• while grace makes men humble, however much they
• know. CHS Notes, S T, 16 421

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Spurgeons Philosophy on Churches having Colleges

• It is nothing but sanctified common sense that
  leads the
• Church local churches to the formation of a
  college.
• 
  Pike, 4356
• Spurgeon said in 1870 It appears to us that the
  mainte-
• nance of a truly spiritual College is probably
  the readiest
• way in which to bless the churches.
• We are not singular in this opinion, for to be
  successful
• workers in all times the same method had
  occurred. With-
• out citing the abundant incidents of early times,
  let us re-
• member the importance which John Calvin attached
  to the
• College at Geneva. Not by any one of the
  Reformers

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Churches and Colleges (cont)

• personally could the Reformation have been
  achieved, but
• They multiplied themselves in their students, and
  so fresh
• centres of light were created.
• .Wherever a great principle is to be advanced,
  prudence
• suggests the necessity of training men who are to
  become
• the advancers of it. Our Lord and Saviour did
  just the
• same thing when he elected twelve to be always
  with him,
• in order that, by superior instruction, they
  might become
• leaders of the church.
• G. W. Harte, Historical Tablets of
  the College
• Founded by Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
  p. 14

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Spurgeons Values for the College

• The College was the first important institution
  commenced by the Pastor, and it still remains his
  first-born and best beloved. Spurgeon, MT Its
  History, p.96
• Our College work is pushed on with vigour
  weare diligently seeking to break up fresh
  groundto found new churches. CHS,
  Memoranda, S T 68, p. 43
• there is yet very much land to be possessed
  and when men break up fresh soil, as ours are
  encouraged to do, the field is the world, and the
  prayer for more labourers is daily more urgent.
  CHS, MT-History, p. 101
• To every land we hope yet to send forth the
  gospel in its fullness and purity. We pray the
  Lord to raise up mis-sionaries among our students
  and make every one a winner of souls.
  CHS, MT-History, p. 102

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The Pastors College room board Practice

• Spurgeon arranged for free tuition and provided
  room board, but note The young brethren are
  boarded generally in twos and threes, in the
  houses of our friends members around the
  Tabernacle, for which the College pays a moderate
  weekly amount. The plan of separate lodging we
  believe to be far preferable to having all under
  one roof for, by the latter mode, men are
  isolated from general family habits, and are too
  apt to fall into superabundant levity. The
  circumstances of the families who entertain our
  young friends are generally such that they are
  not elevated above the social position which in
  all probability they will have to occupy in
  future years, but are kept in connection with the
  struggles and conditions of every-day life.
  CHS, MT-History, p. 100

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Spurgeonic Principles for Today, 1

• THE PULPIT MINISTRY
• Spurgeon wanted his students to understand the
  pulpit was their number one responsibility
  because this is where the climate and atmosphere
  of the church would be created.
• This is accomplished by clearly communicating
  what a Christ-follower is to be do, and what a
  Christ-honoring church is to be do
• the visitation of the sick, private visitation
  among his people, organization of useful
  benevolent institutions, platform speaking,
  occasional contributions to magazines and
  reviewsthese are all good and important but the
  work of the pulpit is more important than any of
  them. Pike, 3184

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Spurgeonic Principle 2

• PRAYER
• Our reliance upon prayer has been very
  conspicuousWe
• have not begun, we have not continued, we have
  not end-
• ed anything without prayerWe wish to be on
  record that
• we owe our success, as a church, to the work of
  the Holy
• Spirit, principally through its leading us to
  pray. Auto 4243
• Spurgeon taught PC men do train the people to
  continually
• meet together for prayer. CHS, Greatest
  Fight, p.43
• Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of
  the
• church. Willams, Spurgeon, p. 72 Auto, 481

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Spurgeonic Principle 3

• 
  PNEUMATOLOGY
• Spurgeon valued the Holy Spirits ministry
• Dear brethren, I feel sure that you have all
  stuck to your studies diligently and my prayer
  is that the Holy Spirit may sanctify your human
  acquirements by a double measure of His
  anointing. Your power lies in His grace rather
  than in natural gifts or scholastic acquisitions.
  Without the Spirit, you will be failures, and
  worse therefore, pray much, and see to it that
  your whole selves are in such a condition that
  the Spirit of God can dwell in you for in some
  men He cannot reside, and with some men He cannot
  work. Let the channel through which the living
  water is to flow be both clear and clean.
  
  Auto, 3159

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Spurgeonic Principle 4

• Processing New Members
• Spurgeon wanted his PC men to understand how
  people were received into membership would shape
  its strength.
• All hurry to get members into the church is most
  mischievous, both to the church and to the
  supposed converts. CHS, The Soul Winner,
  pp. 18-19
• I believe that one reason why our church has
  beenso signally blessed of Godthose who have
  been added to our ranks have been well
  established in the old-fashioned faith of the
  Puritansand therefore have not turned aside or
  drawn away from us. CHS, Auto, 2225

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Spurgeonic Principal 5

• Pastoral Leadership
• Spurgeon was referred to as the governor by his
  members and church leaders. He knew he had to
  lead, but he respected his people. It was said
  about his leadership at the 25th anniversary of
  his pastorate
• With habitual modesty he constantly attributes
  to Sunday-school teachers, tract distributors,
  and in fact to the entire rank and file of
  Christian workers, the real praise for results of
  which he gests all the credit. This is true in a
  degree, although it is even more true that his
  accomplished generalship made the soldiers.
• Spurgeon, Twenty-Fifth
  Year, p. 54

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Spurgeonic Principles 6

• Priesthood of the Believer
• It was in large part the influence and help of a
  lay person named Mary King who led Spurgeon to
  know Christs salvation and Lordship. He never
  forgot her role in his life. Spurgeon said of
  her, I do believe that I learnt more from her
  than I should have learned from my six doctors of
  divinity. CHS, Auto, 153
• Spurgeon knew the potential and power of lay
  persons firsthand and he never got over this in
  how to accomplish multiplying disciples and
  churches.

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Spurgeonic Principle 7 Preparing Preachers

• Spurgeon stated early in his
  pastorate at London
• In past generations our baptized churches used
  to send out pastors
• when they judged them to have sacred gifts and a
  divine call to the
• ministry. Pious youths were sometimes boarded
  with ministers of re-
• pute, by whom they were educated and trained.
  The old plan was
• superseded by colleges founded with devout
  convictions, and support-
• ed with pious intentions. This modern
  proceeding, however, did not ap-
• pear to be free fromobjections. More than one
  principal had lament-
• edthe young men who come in with their hearts
  on fire and empty
• heads went out with heads full of learning, but
  with frozen hearts. We
• had better hie back to some of our old habitsand
  forthwith he
• arranged to pay out of his purse for the
  education of one youth at the
• house of a Baptist minister. Spurgeon,
  Twenty-Fifth, p. 49
• Spurgeon speaking at a Home Missions engagement
  in 1872 said
• that every church should have young men in
  training for the ministry.