Spurgeon's Mother
Story★★★★Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the prince of British preachers, was not born a Baptist. Neither were his parents Baptist. One day his mother said to him, “Ah, Charles, I often prayed the Lord to make you a Christian, but I never asked Him to make you a Baptist.” “Ah, mother,” replied Spurgeon, “with His usual bounty the Lord answered your prayer doing exceedingly abundantly above all that you asked or thought.”
The point
Spurgeon's mother prayed for him to become Christian but never asked God to make him Baptist; God answered abundantly beyond her prayer, giving her both.
Scripture
Ephesians 3:20
Audience
Adults
Tone
Warm · Humorous · Triumphant
To tell aloud
under a minute · 70 words