Grace for All

What I most enjoyed about the book All of Grace by C.H. Spurgeon were the great sense of compassion the author had for the reader and the apologetic aspects of the book.

In a day when compassion for other people and actually caring about what they are going through is so sparse it was refreshing to hear Spurgeon plead with me to love Jesus. When he says “Oh, receive the Lord Jesus into your soul, and you will live forever” I get the sense that he loves me and wants to see me in heaven even though he lived over a hundred years before I was even born. I think one of the great struggles for the church is to have a heart for the unreached. Not only to be thankful for our salvation but to want other people to have that salvation is something that is lacking in so much of our lives. I know that so many times I have had to force myself to pray for a heart that will love people. It was so refreshing to read a book by someone that had a genuine heart for me.

I’ve been commanded to be an evangelist by God and this book was a great example of how to explain the gospel to non-Christians. Spurgeon didn’t leave any room for us to escape without completely accepting or denying Christ and his work on the cross. He was very good at reading the readers mind and answering any questions we might have. In chapter 11, he takes many excused for our lack of following after Christ and refutes them all with basically one verse: “when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.” We don’t have excuses not to follow Christ because he is our strength and our salvation. Praise God for that!