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Renewing Your Mind

Do You Really Need a Savior?

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Reformed, Study, Jesus, Preaching, Christianity, Scripture, Spirit, Bible, Holy, Theology, Christian, God, Teaching

4.84.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The message of Christianity is the message of salvation. But many people don’t recognize their need for a Savior. Today, R.C. Sproul answers objections raised by those who claim that Jesus is irrelevant or unnecessary.

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Meet Today’s Teacher:
 
R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
 
Meet the Host:
 
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

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0:00.0

If I had no love of Christ, the sheer understanding of His righteousness and the righteousness of God would drive me to flee to him with all of my energy.

0:12.5

Because I would understand the simple conclusion that there is nothing in this universe, I need more than a Savior.

0:26.5

And yet, there are millions, in fact, likely billions of people who believe otherwise.

0:35.5

R. C. Sprole has been addressing common objections to the Christian faith this

0:39.4

week on renewing your mind, and today he'll tackle the objection of those who claim that they

0:44.8

don't need a savior. Today is the final day you'll hear from Dr. Sprole's objections answered series,

0:51.4

so I do encourage you to request the complete series, along with

0:55.5

his 32 message overview of apologetics, defending your faith, when you give a donation of any amount

1:02.0

at renewingyourmind.org, before this offer ends at midnight tonight. So how would he

1:08.2

typically respond if someone said to Dr. Sprawl that they didn't need a

1:12.7

savior? So we continue now with our study of the most frequent questions and objections

1:22.3

that people raise about Christianity. One of those most frequent objections that I hear and have been documented

1:33.9

is the objection after we have carefully explained the essence of the Christian faith and have

1:42.1

tried to give a reason for our confidence in the

1:45.2

existence of God and so on, the objection that is raised is simply the statement,

1:51.2

So what?

1:54.0

What's the big deal?

1:56.6

Who cares?

1:59.1

Now, those responses are usually tied with the following statement that I have heard literally

2:04.9

hundreds of times in my life.

2:08.3

I've had people say to me, I don't see the need for religion.

2:24.0

I accept, R.C. that you find some significance and meaning and happiness out of your devotion to Christ and the things of God and so on, but that's not where I am.

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