Students of preaching would learn from Spurgeon that a Scripture manner leads preachers to cross social barriers of conversation to places of speech usually reserved, both in content and intimacy, for only the closest of friends. Seeking the magnetic force of love, the preacher speaks directly, tenderly and personally to his hearers as one friend would speak to another.
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Zachary W. Eswine is Assistant Professor of Homiletics and Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program at Covenant Theological Seminary.
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NOTES
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91. Charles Spurgeon, "A Sacred Solo," in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 24 (Ages Digital Library, 1998), 489.
92. Charles Spurgeon, "The Gracious Lips of Jesus," in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 54 (Ages Digital Library, 1998), 134.
93. Charles Spurgeon, "The Miracles of our Lord's Death," in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 34, (Ages Digital Library, 1998), 895.
94. Charles Spurgeon, "A Sermon of Personal Testimony," in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 44 (Ages Digital Library, 1998), 373.
95. Spurgeon, The Early Years, 348.
96. Charles Spurgeon, "The Crisis of this World," in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 39 (Ages Digital Library, 1998), 805.
97. Charles Spurgeon, "The Cloud of Doves," in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 48 (Ages Digital Library, 1998), 65.
98. Patricia Stallings Kruppa, "Charles Haddon Spurgeon: A Preacher's Progress," Unpublished Dissertation (Columbia University, 1971), 166.
99. Spurgeon, An All Around Ministry, 112.
100. Charles Spurgeon, "Invitation to a Conference," in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 49 (Ages Digital Library, 1998), 69.
101. Notice John Calvin, "If we heard God speaking to us in His majesty, it would be useless for us, for we would understand nothing. Therefore, since we are carnal, He has to stutter or otherwise he would not be understood by us." Sermon on John 1:1-5, quoted in Ronald Wallace, Calvin's Doctrine of the Word & Sacrament (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1957), 3.
102. Charles Spurgeon, "The Approachableness of Jesus," in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 14 (Ages Digital Library, 1998), 315.
103. Charles Spurgeon, "Christ Receiving Sinners," in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 50 (Ages Digital Library, 1998), 397.
104. Charles Spurgeon, "The Secret Food and the Public Name," in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 18 (Ages Digital Library, 1998), 779.
105. Charles Spurgeon, "The Fainting Soul Revived," in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 62 (Ages Digital Library, 1998), 197.
106. Charles Spurgeon, "Longing to Find God," in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 38 (Ages Digital Library, 1998), 546.
107. Charles Spurgeon, "Out of Darkness into Light," in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 41 (Ages Digital Library, 1998), 53.
108. Charles Spurgeon, "There is Forgiveness," in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 41 (Ages Digital Library, 1998), 459.
109. Charles Spurgeon, Able to the Uttermost (Ages Digital Library, 1998), 195.
110. Charles Spurgeon, "Sovereignty and Salvation," in The Park Street Pulpit, Vol. 2 (Ages Digital Library, 1998), 100.
111. Charles Spurgeon, "Effectual Calling," in The Park Street Pulpit, Vol. 2 (Ages Digital Library, 1998), 257.
112. Charles Spurgeon, "The Shadow of a Great Rock," in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 53 (Ages Digital Library, 1998), 173.
113. Merivale, Modern Preaching, 263.
114. Charles Spurgeon, "Feeding on the Word," in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 38 (Ages Digital Library, 1998), 650.
115. Charles Spurgeon, "Choice Teaching for the Chosen," in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 45 (Ages Digital Library, 1998), 60.
116. Charles Spurgeon, "Man's Extremity God's Opportunity," in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Vol. 47 (Ages Digital Library, 1998), 152.