Charles Spurgeon, the great English...
Charles Spurgeon, the great English Baptist preacher of the 19th century, was fond of telling the story of how this passage of Scripture transformed his own young life. As a teenager he quested after personal faith, but he did not have the assurance he desired.
One snowy winter Sunday he went to worship at a small primitive Methodist chapel. The weather was so terrible that the regular preacher did not make it to the service that day. The sermon was given by a lay person. He was not formally trained and young Spurgeon recognized that he was having difficulty with his test:
