Yesterday I tried to preach on how to show the love of Christ to others through personal evangelism.
As usual, Spurgeon said it better than I ever could.
Charles Spurgeon had good people in his congregation. They loved coming to church. They sang and gave and studied their Bibles. But they did not do enough to reach people when they were not in the church. Here is what he said to them:
“Some of you good people who do nothing but go to church and stay home reading your Bibles, would be a good deal better Christians if you would look after the poor and needy around you.
If you would just tuck up your sleeves for work, and go and tell the gospel to dying men, you would find your spiritual health mightily restored, for very much of the sickness of Christians comes through their having nothing to do. All feeding and no working makes men spiritual dyspeptics.”
“Be idle, careless, with nothing to live for, nothing to care for, no sinner to pray for, no backslider to lead back to the cross, no trembler to encourage, no little child to tell of a Savior, no grey headed man to enlighten in the things of God, no object, in fact to live for; and why wonder if you begin to groan, and to murmur and to look within, until you are ready to die of despair?”