Apr 29 2008
Spurgeon on Calling a Spade a Spade
I’ve been wrestling with the propriety of confronting unbelievers with their sin in an effort to evangelize them. On the one hand, it smacks of self-righteous religious hypocrisy. On the other hand are fingers. Here’s what Charles Spurgeon had to say on the matter:
“Men are perishing, and if it be unpolite to tell them so, it can only be so where the devil is the master of the ceremonies.
Out upon your soul-destroying politeness; the Lord give us a little honest love to souls, and this superficial gentility will soon vanish. I could with considerable refreshment to myself pour sarcasm after sarcasm upon religious cowardice. I would cheerfully sharpen my knife and dash it into the heart of this mean vice. There is nothing to be said in its favor.
It is not even humble; it is only pride of too beggarly a sort to own itself.”
(HT: Pyromaniacs)
