Extravaganza Bonanza!

This Saturday in Llandudno we are celebrating our annual Victorian extravaganza. It’s a great fun filled event that lots of people attend regularly. People dress in Victorian attire and there are vintage vehicles and a funfair.

Thinking about the extravaganza spurred me to ponder about the lives and impact of Victorian Christians on the world around them and how they can encourage us to be the salt and light in our generation.

One such Christian that stood out was Charles Haddon Suprgeon, known as the “Prince of Preachers.” He was a Baptist pastor who had a great influence not only in his time, but his words and work are still being used by God today to touch hearts and lives with the Gospel.

In his lifetime he published 49 volumes of commentaries, anecdotes and devotionals; the largest set of books by a single author in the history of Christianity. Which includes his published sermons that fill a staggering 63 volumes.

He is estimated to have preached to about 10 million people, that is a great impact upon so many lives. He was a pastor in London for almost 40 years, and was one of the most well-known pastors of his day. Even today he continues to be an important and influential voice across denominations in the Church.

“If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing; go in your sins, they are your livery. Your ruin is your argument for mercy; your poverty is your plea for heavenly alms; and your need is the motive for heavenly goodness. Go as you are, and let your miseries plead for you.”

“Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God’s grace.”

The above are two great quotes by Spurgeon that clearly demonstrate his earnest heart to share God great good news of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus.

He was a great preacher that was always aware of keeping Jesus central and also of building a legacy of faith for the future. He saw the need to pass on the baton to the next generation and create a generation of history makers that would impact their world with the transforming love of Jesus.

“You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.”

“Train up a child in the way he should go – but be sure you go that way yourself.”

I love the two quotes above. At Llandudno Youth for Christ this really resonates with everything that we do. We want to see God transform lives with His love and leave a legacy for future generations.

Would you consider partnering with us in prayer, provision and people to see a generation of young people passionate about their Saviour rise up and change our nation?

We pray you will.