Status Updates From Spurgeon's Forgotten Sabbat...

Spurgeon called for churches to keep meeting during the influenza epidemic of his time. Many churches cancelled services, but he kept meeting and called for
more prayer meetings to pray concerning the spread of influenza. Dr. Rhea compares this to how we should have handled COVID in our churches.

In a church of 5,000 the Metropolitan Tabernacle took the Lord’s Supper weekly. Despite the logistical and financial challenges that raised, they believed it was a command from God.

Spurgeon was a staunch Sabbatarian his whole life, believing that secular work on Sunday was worthy of church discipline. He even supported legislation to make it illegal for businesses to open on the Lord’s Day. Understanding pastoral work to be a work of piety, he filled the Lord’s Day with preaching, visiting, and evangelism.