What is the ultimate goal of the Christian life? And how can we pursue it? Today, R.C. Sproul explains what we must do if we are to live in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God. Get R.C. Sproul’s commentary on Galatians, plus lifetime digital access to his teaching series Galatians and Pleasing God, for your donation of any amount: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/3609/pleasing-god 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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The big idea of Christianity is to live quorum Deo, to live all of one's life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, and to the honor and to the glory of God.
Without a goal, without clear direction, it is easy for us to go off course. And that's why it's vital as Christians for us to know the goal of the Christian life, to know the challenges that might come our way, and how God instructs us to combat those challenges. Welcome to the Monday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham. This week you'll be hearing messages from R.C.
Sproul's series, Pleasing God, and messages from his series on Galatians. And when you give a donation of any amount in support of Renewing Your Mind, we'll give you lifetime digital access to both of those series, plus we'll send you the hardcover edition of Dr. Sproul's expositional commentary on the book of Galatians. So head on over to renewingyourmind.org and make your donation today.
So what is the goal of the Christian life? And with what vigor should we pursue pleasing God? To start this new study, here's Dr. Sproul.
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak with a friend of mine who's a businessman in Orlando, and he was telling me all about the latest developments in the international world of finance, and he talked about a study that had been made of international corporations in terms of their future planning.
And he mentioned that there were Japanese corporations that didn't have simply three-year plans or five-year plans for their businesses, but some of them extended their business plans out into time 100 and 200 years so that they had an overarching goal that they kept before them at all times so that they could check periodically to make sure that everything that they were doing in their company
was on target. Now after this businessman related all this to me about what was going on in the international field of finance, he looked at me and he said, now about the Christian life, R.C., he said, tell me, please, what is the big idea?
We listen to sermons, we read the scriptures, we get caught up in the maze of the details of theology, but we long for the opportunity to cut through all of the fine points, the particulars of Christianity, and get down to the core, the very essence of what the Christian life is all about. That's what we mean by discerning the big idea. So when this businessman said, R.C., what's the big idea?
I thought about it for a moment, and the answer that popped into my head came out of the 16th century Reformation. when the Protestant Reformers of that time had to define themselves to a watching world. And so they had to crystallize the essence of what their ministry and their movement was about.
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