![]() Hyper Calvinism: The Battle for Gospel Preaching. I’m indebted to Murray for about half of these citations from Spurgeon.)Ĭoncerning 1 Timothy 2:3-6, especially “God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” and “Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all,” Spurgeon said something dramatically different than the hyper-Calvinists: Spurgeon believed salvation was in God’s hands, but that men needed to embrace it, and that God wanted men to hear the gospel and wanted him to preach it. This struck them as putting salvation in man’s hands rather than recognizing it was in God’s. Among other things, they disdained his practice of indiscriminately preaching the gospel to the unsaved, and inviting people in meetings to come forward or otherwise respond to the gospel. He tirelessly preached the gospel and encouraged his church to reach out to the lost, extending to them the gospel of Christ.įor these good deeds, Spurgeon was aggressively opposed by another theological group: the hyper-Calvinists, a fatalistic dogmatic Calvinist minority. Spurgeon and his church built homes for orphans in London, rescuing them from starvation and vice on the streets. Spurgeon built seventeen homes to help care for elderly women, and a large school for hundreds of children. He had a deep concern for caring for the poor and spreading the gospel. Spurgeon’s big view of God motivated him to take seriously God’s commands to reach out to the needy. He recognized their salvation and sincerity, but believed their view of God was often too small, and hence their view of man too big. ![]() As such, he was opposed by anti-Calvinists and a variety of non-Calvinists. Nineteenth century London pastor, preacher and writer Charles Haddon Spurgeon was a Calvinist. ![]() The merits of a theology that advocates belief in Scripture’s revealed truths concerning God and man.even when we can’t reconcile those truths. ![]()
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