R.C. at the Beach: Volume 2
5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 11 August 2021
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Summary
What is the "big idea" of the Christian life? On this episode of 5 Minutes in Church History, Dr. Stephen Nichols explores several of Dr. R.C. Sproul's columns from the second volume of the new Right Now Counts Forever collection.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to five minutes in church history and welcome back to the beach with RC sprawl |
| 0:05.2 | We are in volume two of the right now counts forever columns and these span the years |
| 0:11.8 | 1987 through |
| 0:13.8 | 1996 |
| 0:15.1 | Let's go to one of those from |
| 0:17.8 | 1987 it's the October column and it's entitled what's the big idea? |
| 0:22.9 | He writes I remember mama. I remember mama standing in front of me her hands poised on her hips |
| 0:29.6 | her eyes glaring with hot coals of fire and saying instantorian tones |
| 0:36.3 | Just what is the big idea young man? |
| 0:40.6 | Well, Dr. sprawl says she wasn't really asking a question. It was a thinly veiled accusation |
| 0:49.8 | It sparks him though to think about this question. What's the big idea and specifically what's the big idea of the Christian life? |
| 0:58.8 | Dr. sprawl goes on to write the big idea of the Christian life is |
| 1:04.0 | Deo |
| 1:05.0 | Quorum Deo captures the essence of the Christian life |
| 1:09.5 | It means to live before God and the presence of God |
| 1:13.9 | He writes to live in the presence of God |
| 1:17.0 | Is to understand that whatever we are doing and wherever we are doing it |
| 1:22.2 | We are acting under the gaze of God. There is no place so remote |
| 1:28.3 | That we can escape his penetrating gaze |
| 1:32.7 | Before the face of God |
| 1:36.1 | That's the big idea of the Christian life |
| 1:40.5 | Well moving on to 1992 he received a letter from a young man in seminary who cried out for help |
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