Sacraments
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The so-called sacrament of penance rested at the heart of the Reformation controversy over the role that our merit plays in salvation. Today, R.C. Sproul gives an overview of the seven sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church.
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | We have no higher calling than to know who God is. |
| 0:04.0 | Join Ligdair Ministries for our 2027 National Conference in Orlando. |
| 0:09.0 | Together with Christians from around the world, we'll gather to hear biblical teaching on the glorious attributes of God, |
| 0:16.0 | equipping us to serve Him faithfully and pursue his glory in every sphere of life. |
| 0:21.9 | Save 35% on your registration with the early bird rate at Ligonier.org slash 2027. |
| 0:29.5 | In Protestant theology, what is the instrumental cause by which a person accrues to himself, |
| 0:36.9 | appropriates to himself the merits of Christ. |
| 0:40.1 | What is that instrument? |
| 0:41.9 | Faith. |
| 0:43.0 | What is the instrumental cause of justification for the Roman Church? |
| 0:47.6 | Baptism. |
| 0:59.0 | Two very different answers to the most important question we face. Hello and welcome to renewing your mind on this Friday. |
| 1:02.0 | How are we saved? Through faith in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, or through participation in a sacrament. |
| 1:11.8 | Bottom line, one actually saves, the other doesn't. |
| 1:16.4 | Here's R.C. Sprole. |
| 1:20.5 | In the last 20 years, in the world of theology, there's been a major interest in certain |
| 1:26.5 | quarters of the church of a renewal of liturgy |
| 1:30.8 | and of a renewal of a complete understanding of the nature of sacramental religion. |
| 1:39.6 | In fact, some theologians have tried to broaden to a great degree the concept of sacrament |
| 1:46.5 | to include many things beyond what are normally considered sacraments in the technical sense |
| 1:52.8 | in the life of the church. |
| 1:54.0 | This movement has sometimes been called the pan sacramental movement. |
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