Do You Know Charles H. Spurgeon's Evangelistic Secret?

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It's highly possible that some readers are actually familiar with Ray Comfort's various projects such as "Hell's Best Kept Secret", "True and False Conversion" and "Revival's Golden Key". Notice that Charles H. Spurgeon is mentioned in all three works of Comfort. However, we may have never focused on these truths concerning C.H. Spurgeon's success as a preacher.

According to The Spurgeon Center's article called "Spurgeon's Evangelistic Secret", here are ways that the great preacher had run his ministry putting all in God's hands:

1.) He had deep confidence in the power of God

I won't bring too much of a debate between Calvinism and non-Calvinism. But who says Calvinism kills soulwinning? Calvinism was the motive behind Spurgeon's motives to go soulwinning with this quote:
If there be an elect soul whom God predestines to be converted by my word, he may have fetched him home from Australia to-day, by some untoward accident, as it seems to him; or he may have set sail for America, and the ship may have been drifted back; but this I know, that God will shake heaven and earth sooner than suffer one sleet soul to miss the predestined moment.

2.) He had put his trust in God rather than his own might or persuasive power

Perhaps one mistake that some preachers or soulwinners make is that they tend to rely on her human ability than God's might. Zechariah 4:6 says that it's by the Holy Spirit and not by human might or power. There's the problem that no matter how well you preach, no matter how well you present the facts that some people will not believe.

There is the saying that all you can do is warn others. You may encounter the fact that no matter how much you tell the atheist of evidence of creation but a hardened hart will not savingly believe. Spurgeon also quoted this one about God's power:
Conversion is God’s work: it cannot be wrought without his hand. Without him we can do nothing.

Nobody can say that "I saved so and so." If you won someone to the Lord then it's not your work. Don't take the glory for winning someone. Your job is to preach. The work of conversion is God's work and not man's. John 6:44 says that no man can come unto Jesus except the Father draws them to the Son.

3.) Preaching with real power

The reason why false converts enter into the flock by the thousands if not millions is because of flimsy evangelistic preaching. Comfort and Kirk Cameron revealed the flaws of evangelistic preaching include a watered down presentation of the Gospel, not addressing the issue of sin. It wouldn't make sense to a lost sinner that they need the Savior if they don't see the severity of their sin.

Here's what Spurgeon says about preaching:
When you preach the gospel, souls will be saved. To secure that end you must stick to the gospel, for that is the one means ordained by God for the conversion of sinners.

You need to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ as it is to people as they are. There is no room for tailoring the Gospel. The Gospel is not a product for sale but a truth that must be given. It's like how doctors should never sugarcoat the patient's condition even if the latter gets upset. Pastors must never sugarcoat the Gospel in fear that the other would be upset. Jesus never sugarcoated the truth either and neither should His followers.

Besides, here's the promise that Christians can have with this Spurgeon quote to close this entry:
I question whether our preaching in unbelief is of much service, but if we preach believing that souls will be saved, then they will be saved. If we preach relying on God’s promise that his Word shall not return unto him void, it will not return void, but there shall be fruit for the sower, according to the assurance of our faithful God.

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