The Holy Spirit and the Church

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Reformed, Study, Jesus, Preaching, Christianity, Scripture, Spirit, Bible, Holy, Theology, Christian, God, Teaching

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🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Holy Spirit is not an impersonal force but the third person of the Trinity. Today, R.C. Sproul teaches on the role of the Spirit in our individual lives and in the corporate life of the church.

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Meet Today’s Teacher:

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.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

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	In John chapter 14, Jesus promised that a comforter would come in his name.
0:05.8	A comforter is someone who comes with strength.
0:11.4	And so Jesus promises the Holy Ghost as our ally to stand with us.
0:18.0	And I might add, to encourage us. I'm Nathan W. Bingham and welcome to the Monday edition of Renewing Your Mind.
0:31.6	The Apostles' Creed has been the standard of Christian Orthodoxy since the middle of the second century.
0:38.3	It asserts belief in God the Father, in Jesus Christ, God's only Son, and in the Holy Spirit.
0:46.3	In his series Basic Training, R. C.S. Sproul uses the Apostles' Creed to help ground our understanding of the historic Christian faith.
0:55.8	And until tomorrow, we'll send you this six-part series on DVD, along with a thin-line Bible,
1:02.3	as our way of saying thank you for your donation before midnight tomorrow at renewingyourmind.org.
1:09.5	To give you a taste of this series,
1:11.9	here's Dr. Sprawl on the role of the third person of the Trinity,
1:15.7	the Holy Spirit.
1:21.0	We're going to look at the confession of the church
1:24.2	to the Holy Spirit and to the church,
1:29.4	that segment of the creed that says,
1:36.4	I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of the saints.
1:42.7	Now we noticed earlier on that the Apostles' Creed, and even before that, the Roman symbol,
1:47.9	very earliest time, was self-consciously Trinitarian.
1:52.8	I say that simply because some people sort of think that the full orb concept of the Trinity didn't develop until the 4th century to the Council of Nicaea.
1:56.2	But in fact, the Council of Nicaea was called to reaffirm and assert that which was from the beginning a clear
2:02.6	confession of Trinitarian faith. And so the creeds simply gives us a brief statement. I believe in the
2:10.2	Holy Ghost. Nothing more said about the Holy Ghost. We don't have delineations such as we find later in
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