Follow: Learn to talk about your faith
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15 but in your hearts regard Christ the Lord as holy, ready at any time to give a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you.
Tertullian wrote. We live together with you in this world, including the forum, including the meat markets, and bath shops, Workrooms, Inns, fares and the rest of commercial intercourse. We sail along with you, serve in the army, and are active in agriculture and trade.
Historian Michael Green described it this way. This evangelizing must often have been not formal preaching but the informal chattering to friends and chance acquaintances, in homes and wine shops, on walks, and around market stalls. They went everywhere, gossiping the gospel.; did it naturally, enthusiastically, and with the conviction of those who are not paid to say that sort of thing. Consequently, they were taken seriously.
Conversion is a turning into the right road; the next thing is to walk in it. The daily going on in that road is as essential as the first starting if you would reach the desired end. To strike the first blow is not all the battle; to him that overcomes the crown is promised. To start in the race is nothing, many have done that who have failed; but to hold out till you reach the winning post is the great point of the matter. Perseverance is as necessary to a man’s salvation as conversion. …
Through the Eyes of C.H. Spurgeon: Quotes From A Reformed Baptist PreacherCharles Spurgeon