C.T. Studd’s Passion for Evangelism

C.T. Studd was a wealthy Englishman who upon coming to Christ, sold everything he had to take the gospel to the nations. Many sought to dissuade him, but he went anyway first to China, then to India. At the age of 50, he decided retirement was not an option for the Christians. So he spent the remaining years of his life, proclaiming the gospel in Sudan. He died there and his grave became a stepping stone for what was known as the Worldwide Evangelization Crusade. Spreading the gospel across Asia, Africa, and South America.

C.T. Studd once wrote, “Believing that further delay would be sinful, some of God’s insignificance and nobody’s in particular, but trusting in our Omnipotent God, have decided on certain simple lines, according to the Book of God, to make a definite attempt to render the evangelization of the world and accomplished fact…”

“Too long,” he said, “we have been waiting for one another to begin. The time for waiting is past. The hour of God has struck. In God’s holy name let us arise and build. We will not build on the sand, but on the bedrock sayings of Christ, and the gates and minions of hell shall not prevail against us. 

C.T. Studd’s Passion for Evangelism Dares Us to Trust God More

Should such men as we fear? Before the whole world, aye, before the sleepy, lukewarm, faithless, nambypamby Christian world, we will dare to trust our God, we will venture our all for Him, we will live and we will die for Him, and we will do it with His joy unspeakable singing aloud in our hearts. We will a thousand times sooner die trusting only in our God than live trusting in man. And when we come to this position, the battle is already won, and the end of the glorious campaign in sight. We will have the real Holiness of God, not the sickly stuff of talk and dainty words and pretty thoughts, we will have Real Holiness. One of daring faith and works for Jesus Christ.”