Spurgeon: A Life by Alex DiPrima. Reformation Heritage Books. 312 pages. 2024
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I’ve read a number of biographies of the great English preacher Charles Spurgeon. I would count this new book among the best of them.
The author tells us that Spurgeon accepted a call to pastor one of the most historic churches in the middle of London, what at that time was the largest city in the world, at age nineteen. He had never gone to college and had received no formal seminary training. He would minister in London for thirty-eight years as the pastor of the largest Protestant church in in the world until his death in 1892.
The author shares some amazing facts about Spurgeon, such as:

• Spurgeon was estimated to have preached to over ten million people.
• He helped to start nearly two hundred new churches in Britain alone.
• By his death in 1892, over 20 percent of all Baptist ministers serving in England and Wales had been trained by Spurgeon.

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