All great leaders are innovators – advice from CH Spurgeon

Larry J. Michael’s book Spurgeon on Leadership takes us through the life, ministry and preaching of CH Spurgeon drawing out principles for leaders.

Here is Spurgeon on the need for innovation

Our faith makes us abundant in good works. May I say to you, if you are doing all you possibly can for Christ, endeavour to do yet more? I believe a Christian man is generally right when he is doing more than he can; and when he goes still further beyond that point, he will be even more nearly right. There are scarcely any bounds to the possibilities of our service.

Many a man, who now is doing little, might, with the same exertion, do twice as much by wise arrangement and courageous enterprise. . . We need, like the apostles, to launch out into the deep, or our nets will never enclose a great multitude of fishes. If we had but the pluck to come out of our hiding-places, and face the foe, we should soon achieve immense success. We need far more faith in the Holy Ghost. He will bless us if we cast ourselves entirely upon Him.

Preaching on the 100^th anniversary of William Carey’s birth Spurgeon challenged his hearers in the following words;

When a man once had a good thought, he should not be afraid of it because nobody else had thought of it. He should do it and dare it, defying custom if it thwarted him, tearing it to pieces if it stood in the way of right. All God’s true servants were innovators. Those that turned the world upside down were the very descendants of the Lord Jesus Christ.