Spurgeon was preaching to thousands before he was twenty-five, which raises the question this book is written to answer: where did the convictions of such a man come from?

Tom Nettles follows the key commitments of Spurgeon's life from the years before and just after his conversion through to his development as the pastor whose work shaped evangelicalism in the second half of the nineteenth century. A study of formation rather than a cradle-to-grave biography.