My journey to discover Spurgeon journal entry #6

We often feel like the church has never been in such a poor state. But this is not true. Our enemy wants us to feel defeated.

When Spurgeon started evangelizing, he began at home.

“England was a land of closed churches and unstoled clergy...the parson was often an absentee, not infrequently a drunkard. Bishops filled their aprons with (payments)...and did little work. The rich went to church to doze in upholstered curtained lees fitted with fireplaces, while the poor were herded together in uncomfortable benches. It was beyond question that the Church was broadly speaking, spiritually moribund and discredited utterly...There were a few earnest men who deplored her imminent collapse.”

The story is always the same. The Church needs revival and the world needs the church revived. When the Church is not in revival, she is dying. But she will never die. It’s not time to despair, it is time to return to our first love.