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Book Report on Charles Spurgeon's Lectures to My Students
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Charles Spurgeon Book Report

Lectures to my Students
Submitted to: Dr. R. Scott Pace

Pastoral Leadership 635

By: Johnny F. Gail (ID# L24543560)

Lynchburg, Virginia

07 April 2013

Table of Contents
Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………....1
Summary ……………………………………………………………………………………….1
Critique …………………….………………………………………………………………..…3
Evaluation ………………….…………………………………………………………………..5
Bibliography ………………………………………………………………………………..…7

Summary
Lectures to my Students, by C. H. Spurgeon compiles the Presidential addresses and speeches made by Spurgeon to the ministers and students at the annual conference of the Pastor’s College which Spurgeon himself founded. (spurgeon.org) Lectures to my Students reflects the heart and soul that C. H. Spurgeon had for the people that he was speaking to. Each chapter reflects the speech that Mr. Spurgeon gave in successive years at the college.
Lectures to my Students shows the heart that Spurgeon had for those he taught and also ministers in general. In each and every address Spurgeon espouses the love, commitment and challenge to students and ministers that he felt. Spurgeon’s love for his hearers is reflected in line after line of his understanding of their calling and equipping for the ministry. Lectures to my Students speaks of those things that Spurgeon felt was the most necessary things for the ministers.
The books strengths are numerous and include: an obvious interest in his subjects, relating to them from personal experience, a thorough knowledge of his background material with commitment to telling it in a way that holds the listeners attention and a binding to the Word of God that attracts the man of God. Greater than all of these strengths though is his way of relating his admonishments. Instead of dry uninteresting conversation C. H. Spurgeon gives each address the interest of personal testimony.
On the other side there are very few weaknesses in the book. If there is a



Bibliography: Spurgeon, Charles H., Lectures to My Students, Hendrickson Publishers, LLC - Peabody, Massachusetts (MA ... www.spurgeon.org http://www.logos.com/product/6780/lectures-to-my-students-vol-4-commenting-and-commentaries

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