The Minister's Self-Watch

Another quality eBook from Chapel Library (active Contents and footnotes) "The Minister’s Self-Watch" is the first chapter in Charles Spurgeon’s Lectures to My Students. Spurgeon’s Lectures contains great wisdom and advice for preachers. He addressed the Lectures to students at the Pastor’s College, a college Spurgeon instituted because he recognized the need for training pastors for the Gospel ministry. In fact, he called the college his “first-born and best beloved.” He also said, “This is my life’s work, to which I believe God has called me and therefore I must do it. To preach the Gospel myself, and to train others to do it, is my life’s object and aim.” The Pastor’s College trained hundreds of men during Spurgeon’s lifetime. “The solemn work with which the Christian ministry concerns itself demands a man’s all, and that all at its best. To engage in it half-heartedly is an insult to God and man"—from Spurgeon’s Introduction to Lectures to My Students