This morning I left home and traveled to Louisville, KY to attend the Together for the Gospel conference. The theme for this year’s conference is “The Unadjusted Gospel.” The sessions begin tomorrow morning and it is my goal to post some highlights here on my blog.
I will begin with highlights from my flights to Louisville (I had to fly from San Antonio to Baltimore in order to go back to Louisville). On the flights and in the airports I read Charles Spurgeon’s “Lectures to His Student’s.” Spurgeon’s primary audience was his divinity students, but there are a number of wonderful nuggets of truth that I want to share because I think they can benefit a much broader audience since all believers are ultimatley set apart to proclaim the gospel of Christ.
"Those who praise us are probably as much mistaken as those who abuse us, and the one may be regarded as a set off to the other, if indeed it be worth while taking any account at all of man's judgment. If we have the approbation of our God, certified by a placid conscience, we can afford to be indifferent to the opinions of our fellow men, whether they commend or condemn. If we cannot reach this point we are babes and not men."
"The minister who does not earnestly pray over his work must surely be a vain and conceited man. He acts as if he thought himself sufficient of himself, and therefore needed not appeal to God."
"We dare not flatter our hearers, but we must continue to tell them that they are born sinners, and must be born saints, or they will never see the face of God with acceptance."
"Standing as we do in a position which makes us choice targets for the devil and his allies, our best course is to defend our innocence by our silence and leave our reputation with God."
"The fair maid of truth does not paint her cheeks and tire her head like Jezebel, following every new philosophic fashion; she is content with her own native beauty, and her aspect is in the main the same yesterday, today, and forever."
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