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I was making a computation, and I found that he must have preached the gospel, during the time of his public ministry, to no less than ten millions of people; that during his pastorate he must have received into communion between ten and twelve thousand converts; that his sermons must have reached a total of between twenty and forty millions of readers during the last thirty years; and that, probably, to-day there are over fifty millions of people that are reading the account of his life, and his labours, and his decease and burial. (From the Pulpit to the Palm Branch [New York: A. C. Armstrong and Son, 1892], 229)
See also Christian History 10, no. 1: 2–3.
3. Russell Herman Cornwell, Life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The World’s Greatest Preacher (New York: Edgewood Publishing, 1892), 235.
4. Christian George, The Lost Sermons of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 1: His Earliest Outlines and Sermons Between 1851 and 1854 (Nashville: B&H Academic, 2017), xvii–xx; Matt Carter and Aaron Ivey, Steal Away Home: Charles Spurgeon and Thomas Jefferson: Unlikely Friends on the Passage to Freedom (Nashville: B&H Publishing, 2017).
5. Charles H. Spurgeon, The Sword and the Trowel, vol. 4 (London: Passmore and Alibaster, 1874), 111–13, 116. Alternate text: C. H. Spurgeon’s Autobiography, vol. 1 (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1899), 355–56.
6. G. Holden Pike, The Life and Work of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, vol. 5 (London: Cassel, 1923), 138–40. See also W. M. Hutchings, Smoking to the Glory of God: A Letter to the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon in Reply to His Apology for Smoking, with Special Reference to the Principle on Which That Apology Is Based, 2nd ed. (London: W. M. Hutchings, 1874), 5-7-14; Charles Ray, The Life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1903), 490–91.
7. Quoted in Justin D. Fulton, Charles H. Spurgeon, Our Ally (Chicago: H. J. Smith & Co., 1892), 345.
8. The Autobiography of Charles H. Spurgeon, vol. 3 (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1899), 138. For Spurgeon on debt, see also Charles Spurgeon, John Ploughman’s Talk (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1896), 96–110.
9. Spurgeon, John Ploughman’s Talk, 183, 210–11. In this quote, Spurgeon is speaking via his character “John Ploughman.”
10. Spurgeon, John Ploughman’s Talk, 16–17. In this quote, Spurgeon is speaking via his character “John Ploughman.”
11. Reginald H. Barnes, Charles Haddon Spurgeon: The People’s Preacher (Kilmarnock, Scotland: John Ritchie, Ltd., Publishers of Christian Literature, 1892), 235–36.
12. W. Y. Fullerton, C. H. Spurgeon: A Biography (London:Williams and Norgate, 1920), 260.
13. Christian George, “How Would Spurgeon Vote?” Nov. 7, 2016, published in the Spurgeon Center; Christian History 10, no. 1: 13.
14. C. H. Spurgeon’s Autobiography, vol. 4 (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1900), 127.
15. Christian George, “How Would Spurgeon Vote?” Nov. 7, 2016, published in the Spurgeon Center.
16. Timothy Weber, “The Baptist Tradition,” in Curing and Caring: Health and Medicine In the Western Faith Traditions, ed. Ronald L. Numbers and Darryl W. Amundsen (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1986), 294; Conwell, Life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 173–79.
17. Conwell, Life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 184–85. See also Conwell, chapter 3, on Spurgeon’s experience with miracles.
18. C. H. Spurgeon’s Autobiography, vol. 1 (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1899), 362. See Spurgeon’s two sermons, “The Minister’s Fainting Fits,” Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, First Series (New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1890), 249–67; and “The Desire of the Soul in Spiritual Darkness,” C. H. Spurgeon, The New Park Street Pulpit, vol. 1 (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1963), 237–44. Also see Christian History 10, no. 1: 22–25.
19. Conwell, Life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 85.
20. C. H. Spurgeon’s Autobiography, vol. 1 (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1899), 242.
21. C. H. Spurgeon’s Autobiography, vol. 3 (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1899), 89; and W. Y. Fullerton, C. H. Spurgeon: A Biography (London: Williams and Norgate, 1920), 250. Note that Spurgeon was a Reformed Baptist; however, he got into heated disputes with at least one hyper-Calvinist. See Iain Murray, The Forgotten Spurgeon (Edinburgh: Banner of Trust, 2010); and Iain Murray, Spurgeon v. Hyper-Calvinism (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 2010).
22. This quote appears in a story recounted by Spurgeon’s associate, Godfrey Holden Pike. See Pike, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Preacher, Author, Philanthropist (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1892), 335–36.
Chapter 13 The Shocking Beliefs of D. L. Moody
1. Christian History 9, no. 1.
2. William R. Moody, The Life of D. L. Moody (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1900), 43.
3. Moody, Life of D. L. Moody, 568.
4. G. Campbell Morgan, “Christ and Nathanael,” The Advance 54 (Dec. 26, 1907): 789.
5. Paul Dwight Moody and Percy L. Fitt, The Shorter Life of D. L. Moody, vol. 1: His Life (Chicago: The Bible Institute Colportage Association, 1900), 95.
6. The New Sermons of Dwight Lyman Moody (New York: Henry S. Goodspeed, 1880), 589.
7. James F. Findlay, Dwight L. Moody, American Evangelist 1837–1899 (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 1969), 40.
8. Warren W. Wiersbe, 50 People Every Christian Should Know (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2014), 2009, 177–78.
9. Alton Gansky, 60 People Who Shaped the Church (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2014), 275–76. For further insight into Moody’s life, see Christian History 9, no. 1; Gansky, 60 People, chap. 53; Wiersbe, 50 People, chap. 24; Moody, The Life of D. L. Moody.
10. Dwight L. Moody, The New Sermons of Dwight Lyman Moody (New York: Nelson & Phillips, 1877), 258.
11. D. L. Moody, Great Joy (New York: EB Treat, 1877), 183.
12. Christian History 9, no. 1: 19.
13. Dwight L. Moody, “When My Lord Jesus Comes,” The Herald of Gospel Liberty 8, no. 28 (July 13, 1911): 878 (9).
14. “Drummond’s Greatest Thing in the World,” Christianity Today, April 28, 2010; D. W. Bebbington, “Henry Drummond, Evangelicalism and Science,” Internet Archive, 145–46.
Some of Drummond’s opinions caused other evangelicals to refuse to appear on stage with him during Moody’s 1893 Northfield Conference.
15. Christian History 9, no. 1: 25; Rosemary Skinner Kelley and Rosemary Radford Reuther, eds., Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006), 441.
16. Richard Turnbull, A Passionate Faith: What Makes an Evangelical (Oxford, UK: Monarch Books, 2012), 146.
17. Dwight L. Moody, The Gospel Awakening (Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1883), 370.
18. D. L. Moody, One Thousand and One Thoughts from My Library (Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1898), 15, 113.
19. Martyn McGeown, “The Life and Theology of D. L. Moody” on the Covenant Protestant Reformed website.
20. D. L. Moody, Weighed and Wanting (Chicago: The Bible Institute Colportage Association, 1898), 15.
21. D. L. Moody, “How Shall We Spend the Sabbath?” Golden Counsels (Boston: United Society of Christian Endeavor, 1899); D. L. Moody, The Ten Commandments: Reasonable Rules for Life (Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 2016).
22. D. L. Moody, Heaven: Where It Is, Its Inhabitants, And How to Get There (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1884), 35.
Chapter 14 Seven Shocking Statements by Billy Graham
1. Franklin Graham, “My Father Has Gone Home,” and Cathy Lynn Grossman, “Evangelist Blazed Numerous Spiritual Trails,” USA Today, Feb. 22, 2018.
2. Billy Graham, interview by Robert Schuller, Hour of Power, May 31, 1997. This interview can also be construed as Graham saying that there are people involved in false religions that are called by God who will eventually be called out of those religions and brought into the church later after they hear and respond to the gospel.
3. Billy Graham, “I Can’t Play God Anymore,” interview with James M. Beam, McCall’s, January 1978, 156, 158. It should be noted that according to one source, Graham
issued this clarification about the above interview:
On the whole, I am pleased with the accuracy of the interview. However, a few of the statements unfortunately convey meanings which I never intended to suggest in the original, unedited interview. This may be due to my own failure to make myself as plain as I should have. Whoever sees the footsteps of the Creator in nature can ask the God he does not fully know for help, and I believe God—in ways we may not fully understand—will give that person further light and bring him to a knowledge of the truth that is in Jesus Christ so he will be saved. More significantly, however, Graham did not repudiate his views about Roman Catholicism. These views explain why he uses Roman Catholics as counselors in his evangelistic campaigns, why he urged Catholics to reconfirm their confirmation at his 1979 rally in Milwaukee, why the Vatican would not oppose a Graham campaign in Rome, why he does not tell Catholic “converts” that they should leave their parish churches, and why there is now adequate evidence to question Billy Graham’s belief of the truth. Paul curses anyone who perverts or preaches any other Gospel than that which Paul preached, and Christians ought to take such curses seriously. (Published on The Trinity Foundation website at the end of an article called “Dispensationalism” by Gordon H. Clark)
4. Bruce Buursma, “Concerns of the Evangelist,” Christianity Today, April 5, 1985; “What I Would Have Done Differently,” Christianity Today, Billy Graham’s regrets, in his own words, compiled by Collin Hansen, April 2018, p. 95.
5. Billy Graham, interview by Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Christianity Today, January 21, 2011.
6. Billy Graham, interview by Greta Van Susteren, November 7, 2011.
7. Billy Graham, World Aflame (United Kingdom: World’s Work, 1965), 86.
8. Billy Graham, “Billy Graham Speaks: The Evangelical World Prospect,” an exclusive interview in Christianity Today 3, no. 1 (Oct. 13, 1958): 5.
Chapter 16 You Just Might Be a Pharisee If . . .
1. E. Stanley Jones, The Way (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2015), Week 19, Wednesday.
Chapter 17 Twenty Reasons Why the Christian Right and the Christian Left Won’t Adopt Me
1. Rick Warren, interview, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, ABC News, April 8, 2012.
Chapter 23 The Essentials of Our Faith
1. radicalresurgence.com/essentials.
2. C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (London: William Collins, 1952), viii.
3. Frank Viola, Reimagining Church (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 2008), 237–38.
Chapter 24 Who Are the Real Heretics?
1. Ben Witherington, Grace in Galatia: A Commentary on St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998), 401.
Chapter 25 They Are Our Teachers
1. Lewis, Collected Letters, 119.
2. Jonathan Edwards, Charity and Its Fruits (New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1852), 243–44.
3. Martin Luther, Luther’s Large Catechism, trans. John N. Lenker, vol. 2, Christian Educational Series (Minneapolis: Luther Press, 1908), 123–24.
4. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1960), 4.17.32.
5. Augustine, The Literal Meaning of Genesis, vol. 1 (New York: Paulist Press, 1982), 41.
6. John Wesley, The Works of John Wesley, Volume 1: Sermons 1–53 (Harrington, DE: Delmarva Publications, 2014).
7. Charles Spurgeon, “Satanic Hindrances,” The Spurgeon Center, October 29, 1865, Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/satanic-hindrances#flipbook/.
8. D. L. Moody, The D. L. Moody Collection (Karpathos Collections, 2015).
9. Billy Graham, “True Unity,” Daily Devotion, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, July 2, https://billygraham.org/devotion/true-unity/.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Endorsements
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
1. Why This Book?
2. ’Tis Humor
3. We Know in Part
4. Honoring Those with Whom You Disagree
5. It’s Not a Bloodsport
6. The Shocking Beliefs of C. S. Lewis
7. The Shocking Beliefs of Jonathan Edwards
8. The Shocking Beliefs of Martin Luther
9. The Shocking Beliefs of John Calvin
10. The Shocking Beliefs of Augustine
11. The Shocking Beliefs of John Wesley
12. The Shocking Beliefs of Charles Spurgeon
13. The Shocking Beliefs of D. L. Moody
14. Seven Shocking Statements by Billy Graham
15. The New Tolerance
16. You Just Might Be a Pharisee If . . .
17. Twenty Reasons Why the Christian Right and the Christian Left Won’t Adopt Me
18. So You Think You Disagree?
19. The Art of Being a Jerk Online
20. Warning: The World Is Watching How We Christians Treat One Another
21. Misrepresentations
22. Possessing a Mind to Suffer
23. The Essentials of Our Faith
24. Who Are the Real Heretics?
25. They Are Our Teachers
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Author
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