How to Worship
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The Lord commands us to worship Him according to His Word, not our own preferences. Today, R.C. Sproul exhorts us to order our worship after the revealed will of God.
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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.
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 | The only God that we are to worship is the God who reveals himself in sacred scripture, |
| 0:05.4 | and true worship focuses on the whole council of God, |
| 0:11.1 | not on isolated aspects of God with which we are comfortable. |
| 0:26.6 | Christians throughout the ages and around the world have had points of difference. If you attend any Bible study today, it will usually be some discussion, some debate, |
| 0:31.6 | about what the text really means. But one area where almost every Christian has an opinion where the debate can |
| 0:39.3 | get a little heated is when the topic of worship is brought up. Welcome to the Saturday edition |
| 0:45.8 | of renewing your mind as we're spending time each week with R. C. Sprole considering areas where |
| 0:51.5 | all Christians have room to grow. |
| 0:57.6 | These messages are from Dr. Sprole's 10-part series. |
| 1:00.4 | It's a series that also has a companion book, |
| 1:03.6 | and until midnight tonight, we'll unlock the series and send you the book as our way of saying thank you |
| 1:06.6 | for your donation of any amount at renewingermind.org. |
| 1:11.2 | So how should we think about worship? |
| 1:13.6 | Here's Dr. Sprawl. |
| 1:16.8 | We continue now today with our study of the five things every Christian needs to know |
| 1:23.5 | to grow up into maturity in Christ. |
| 1:27.2 | And those five things, of course, are how to study the Bible. to grow up into maturity in Christ. |
| 1:34.7 | And those five things, of course, are how to study the Bible, how to pray, how to worship God, |
| 1:39.7 | how to serve God, and how to be a good steward. |
| 1:46.0 | Now, these, of course, are not the only considerations that we have in our spiritual growth, but we've isolated these five as critical things that every Christian needs to understand |
| 1:53.5 | in their Christian life. |
| 1:54.7 | And we've already seen the matter of studying the scriptures and prayer. |
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