I’m grateful to The Spurgeon Library at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City for posting my article on their blog today: “Spurgeon’s Heart for Rural Ministries.” Here’s the first paragraph:

While many young pastors long for an influential ministry in the population centers to increase their platform and reach more people, Spurgeon believes they should embrace rural ministries. From his upbringing to his first ministry post, Spurgeon would look back with much affection to the time he spent in these rural areas—areas that those in the cities would ignore or outright forget. Spurgeon’s ministry was laced was references to his rural upbringing.

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