Book CRITIQUE OF:
Lectures to my students
BY:
Charles H. Spurgeon
Submitted to Dr. Robert Pace in partial fulfillment of the requirements for
201320 SPRING 2013PLED 635 – D01 LUO
PASTORAL THEOLOGY
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APRIL 7, 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
BIBLIOGRAPHIC ENTRY………………………………………………………………………1
SUMMARY………..……………………………………………………………….......................1
critique………………………………………………………………………….......................5
EVALUATION.…………………………………………………………………………………….
BIBLIOGRAPHIC ENTRY
Spurgeon, Charles H. Lectures To My Students. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 2011, Kindle Electronic Edition.
SUMMARY
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Lectures To My Students covers a variety of topics discussed in twenty-eight lectures. Spurgeon’s lectures include: “The Ministers Self-Watch”: “The Call to the Ministry”; “The Preacher’s Private Prayer”; “Our Public Prayer”; “Sermons – Their Matter”; “On the Choice of a Text”; “On Spiritualizing”; “On the Voice”; “Attention!”; “The Faculty of Impromptu Speech”; “The Minister’s Fainting Fits”; “The Minister’s Ordinary Conversation”; “To Workers with Slender Apparatus”; “The Holy Spirit in Connection with our Ministry”; “The Necessity of Ministerial Progress”; “The Need of Decision for the Truth”; Open-Air Preaching – A Sketch of Its History”; Open – Air Preaching – Remarks Thereon’; “Posture, Action, Gesture, Etc.”; “Earnestness: Its Marring and Maintenance”; “The Blind Eye and Deaf Ear”; “On Conversation as our Aim”; “Illustrations in Preaching”; “Anecdotes from the Pulpit”; “The Uses of Anecdotes and Illustrations”; “Where Can We Find Anecdotes and Illustrations?”; and “The Sciences as Sources of Illustration.” The length of this paper does not allow for comment on all twenty-eight lectures this review will be limited in scope to a broad overview of some of the more important …show more content…
Conscious of their own defects, they endeavor to improve themselves, but the absence of a guide, their need of books, and their scanty time, all prevent their making progress. These are the men whom the Pastor’s College welcomes… The College aims at training preachers rather than scholars. To develop all the faculty of ready speech, to help them understand the word of God, and to foster the spirit of consecration, courage, and confidence in God, are objects so important that we put all other matters in secondary position. If a student should learn a thousand things, and yet fail to preach the gospel acceptably, his College course will have missed its true design (Spurgeon 2011, Location 63 of