Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. We have a very special

episode for you today. Today I am joined by none other than Dr. R.C. Sproll.

So first let me just say welcome Dr Sprold. Thank you Steve. It's great to be with you as always.

I'm glad to have you on our show. Well I thought for our show together we would like to have you share with our listeners since it's five minutes in church

history. What would be your top five books in church history? Now let me sort of paint the picture for you. We'll have you on a deserted

island and this is not your average island. This island already comes equipped with the Bible and

it comes equipped with Calvin's institutes. So apparently the exiles who'd been here before you

are rather theologically literate.

So we've got the Bible, we've got Calvin's institutes,

we've got the works of Edwards,

and we'll even throw in the works of Augustine. So beyond that, what five

books would you want to take with you to this deserted island?

Well, the first one I'd like to ask Steve is how to survive on a desert stand.

No, you cheated.

You already took my favorite books, so now I have to think about other ones.

Well, I would certainly take Luther's bondage of the will

because that made a tremendous impact to me.

And I've read it probably four times.

And I really like that book.

I would also include one that most laymen probably wouldn't be interested in and that's the

Alectic theology by Turret, the whole three volumes of that.

It's had a great impact on my life.

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