The Power of God unto Salvation
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The gospel is more than a mere message about Jesus. It is the power of God to save sinners from corruption and condemnation. Today, R.C. Sproul explores where this power resides and how it transforms our approach to evangelism.
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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 | If we presume to be preaching the gospel and either ignore or deny that Jesus is the Son of God, |
| 0:09.3 | we've obscured an essential element of the gospel. |
| 0:11.9 | If we ignore or deny his being the Messiah, we have not preached the gospel. |
| 0:17.6 | And if we ignore or deny the Lordship of Christ, we have a truncated |
| 0:23.6 | gospel. |
| 0:25.6 | What does it mean to share the gospel? If you share your testimony, what God has done in your life is that technically evangelism? |
| 0:40.3 | What content must be present to be able to say that someone preached the good news of the gospel? |
| 0:47.3 | Today, on this Tuesday edition of Renewing Your Mind, R. C. Sprole will continue his overview of the good news and fill in those essential |
| 0:55.9 | elements of the gospel. Yesterday, he said, we are in a period of crisis with respect to our |
| 1:03.3 | understanding of the actual biblical content of the gospel. So I do hope you request today's |
| 1:09.1 | resource offer when you give a donation at Renewing Your Mind.org |
| 1:13.6 | before midnight tonight. When you do, we'll send you his book saved from what. |
| 1:18.6 | Two copies of his book, What is the Gospel? |
| 1:21.6 | Plus add this series on the meaning of the gospel to your digital library in the free Ligonier app. |
| 1:28.9 | But respond today as this offer ends in only a few hours. |
| 1:33.9 | So how did the apostles use the word gospel and what content did they include? |
| 1:39.7 | Here's Dr. Sprawl. |
| 1:43.7 | We've been looking at the question, what is the gospel? We saw the origin of the |
| 1:50.6 | term gospel from the Greek word A1 Galion, and we look briefly at the way in which this idea of |
| 1:57.7 | the gospel functioned in the preaching of Christ. |
| 2:01.6 | But then as I said, when we get to the apostolic use of the term gospel, |
| 2:08.6 | particularly as we find it in the epistles, the abbreviated description of it is simply the gospel of Jesus Christ. Now, before we fill out the content of |
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