Spurgeon’s Conversion

Before Charles Spurgeon became the “Prince of Preachers,” he was a 15-year-old boy burdened by his sin and searching for the way of salvation.

Dr. Jeff Medders and Dr. Geoff Chang trace the early influences that shaped Spurgeon—from growing up in his grandfather’s pastor’s home and reading the Puritans to the snowstorm that unexpectedly led him into a small Primitive Methodist chapel on January 6, 1850.

There, an unknown lay preacher opened Isaiah 45:22 and gave Spurgeon the simple command to look to Christ.

Jeff and Geoff explore how that moment shaped Spurgeon’s preaching, evangelistic zeal, and understanding of faith for the rest of his life—and why his story is a reminder that the power is not in the preacher, but in the gospel.