Leadership

'Failure at a crucial moment may mar the entire outcome of a life. A man who has enjoyed special light is made bold to follow in the way of the Lord, and is anointed to guide others therein. He rises into a place of love and esteem among the godly, and this promotes his advancement among men. What then? The temptation comes to be careful of the position he has gained, and to do nothing to endanger it. The man, so lately a faithful man of God, compromises with worldlings, and to quiet his own conscience invents a theory by which such compromises are justified and even commended. He receives the praises of the 'judicious'; he has, in truth, gone over the enemy. The whole force of his former life now tells upon the wrong side...To avoid such an end it becomes us to ever stand fast.' Iain Murray, The Forgotten Spurgeon, p. 161-162