I wonder if people looked closely at my life, the way I pray, the way I preach, the way I interact with others, would they see that I love sinners and I long to see them transformed by the gospel of Jesus Christ?Tom Ascol writes about Spurgeon, "Any study of Spurgeon's ministry immediately reveals a man obsessed with evangelism. From the moment of his conversion to his dying day, Spurgeon maintained a deep burden for souls."We're working through "All of Grace" as a church trying to learn what we can from Spurgeon about sharing the gospel, and if there is one thing that we've seen clearly, it is that this is a man who desired to see sinners saved.He begins, "He who spoke and wrote this message will be greatly disappointed if it does not lead many to the Lord Jesus Christ."He continues, "I only care for this, I had rather bless the soul of the poorest crossing-sweeper, or rag-gatherer, than please a prince of the blood and fail to convert him to God."He cared for people, he wanted them to be saved and he believed that we as Christians all should do the same.He writes somewhere else,"If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for."Further,"Every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly, and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses them, and how much the church prospers. But beloved, souls may be damned, yet how few of you care about them! Sinners may sink into the gul of perdition, yet how few tears are shed over them! The whole world may be swept away by a torrent down the precipice of woe, yet how few really cry to God on its behalf. How few men say, 'Oh that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I may weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!' We do not lament before God the loss of men's souls, as it well becomes Christians to do."I think we have to be very careful we do not use what we believe about God and about His role in man's salvation as an excuse for a lack of love for the people who are dying and going to hell all around us.I can't explain how it all works out, but I know without a doubt that God's sovereignty is no excuse for a lack of love. Nobody understood God's sovereignty better than Jesus Christ and yet I think of how he looked at the rich young ruler and "loved him" and how he "wept" over Jerusalem. Hardly anybody wrote more about God's sovereignty than the apostle Paul, and yet right before he launches into this big long discussion of what exactly it means, he cries out, "I wish that I could be accursed for the sake of my brethren."If we are going to become effective witnesses, strategies, weekend retreats, sermons, all helpful; but I think we do need to just step back before we get into all that and ask ourselves, do we desire sinners to be saved that desperately?