Effectual Calling

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Does God alone change the heart of a sinner, or does this change of heart also rely on the sinner's will? Today, R.C. Sproul helps us address this crucial question by contrasting two theological terms: monergism and synergism.

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0:00.0	The only way we're ever going to choose Christ willingly
0:04.5	is if God intervenes to make us willing,
0:07.6	changing the disposition of the heart,
0:10.3	raising us from spiritual death and giving us spiritual life.
0:21.0	Ephesians chapter 2 is clear.
0:23.0	Before somebody becomes a Christian,
0:24.7	they're dead in their trespasses and sins.
0:27.2	So how does a dead person choose Christ?
0:30.0	And does the Holy Spirit give spiritual life to everybody?
0:33.2	Or just some of us?
0:34.8	You're joining us for the Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind.
0:37.7	I'm Nathan W. Bingham.
0:39.7	We all have different experiences of becoming a Christian,
0:43.2	whether you grew up outside of the church
0:45.2	and had a dramatic conversion,
0:46.9	or you had lots of questions
0:48.5	and it took a lot of study before you trusted in Christ.
0:51.5	Or you grew up inside the church
0:53.2	and you don't even remember a time
0:55.0	when you didn't trust Jesus.
0:56.7	Despite these differences,
0:58.3	as we'll hear today from our see Spreau,
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