Excellence
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Where are the Christians of past generations whose devotion to God drove them to leave an enduring impact on the world? Today, R.C. Sproul explains the motivation to excellence that God’s people must recover in our day.
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Meet Today’s Teacher:
R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was known for his ability to winsomely and clearly communicate deep, practical truths from God’s Word. He 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, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
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| 0:00.0 | You can't tell me that in the 20th century all of a sudden God quit giving gifts to his people, |
| 0:05.8 | and it's just that the secularist has all a talent. |
| 0:09.2 | And a Christian community is working like mad, but they don't have any talent. |
| 0:13.4 | Well, I think what it is is that the secular man is out motivating the Christian person. |
| 0:19.1 | The Christian person is not motivated to excellence. |
| 0:27.6 | What motivates you to use your gifts and talents in service to God? What should be the motivation |
| 0:34.6 | for the Christian to pursue excellence? Welcome to the Monday edition |
| 0:40.1 | of Renewing Your Mind, where today we are going back deep into the archives where you'll hear a message |
| 0:46.2 | from R.C. Sprawl given in the 1970s on excellence. Concern for the good, the true, and the beautiful, pursuing excellence in all things |
| 0:57.7 | was a mark of Dr. Sproul's ministry and is in the DNA of Ligeneer Ministries. That's one of the |
| 1:04.3 | reasons that there are thousands of people all around the world who support the global outreach |
| 1:09.6 | of Ligeneer Ministries as ministry partners. |
| 1:12.7 | They pray for this ministry and financially support the development of new discipleship resources |
| 1:18.5 | and training events and conferences and fuel the translation of our vast library into the world's |
| 1:25.3 | top languages. I'll discuss this more after today's message, |
| 1:28.9 | but if you'd like to join this special group of people and become a theological lifeline |
| 1:33.7 | to countless Christians around the world, you can sign up and learn more at Ligonier.org |
| 1:39.9 | slash partner. There's also a link in the podcast show notes. Well, here's Dr. Sprole in the |
| 1:46.1 | 1970s in a classroom setting, teaching on excellence. I'm sure that by now everyone in the room |
| 1:55.4 | knows the primary battle cry or the slogan of the 16th century reformation, which is the unifying point of |
| 2:04.8 | classic historic evangelicalism. |
| 2:08.4 | What is it? |
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