Renewing Your Mind The Divine Initiative
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Sep 3, 2025 
In this engaging discussion, R.C. Sproul, founder of Ligonier Ministries, challenges the notion that predestination negates the need for evangelism. He emphasizes the beauty and importance of sharing the gospel as a divine mission. Sproul explores concepts like total depravity and God's transformative grace, revealing how human responsibility intertwines with divine initiative. Through personal anecdotes, he highlights the uplifting impact of spreading good news, making a case for why every believer should participate in this vital work.
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Human Fallenness Is Radical
- Paul paints human sinfulness as radical and all-encompassing, not merely accidental or peripheral.
- This establishes that the first step of salvation must be an act of God, not human effort.
Salvation Begins With 'But God'
- The key theological pivot is the word "but God," which shifts credit for salvation entirely to divine action.
- R.C. Sproul stresses that being made alive is an initiating act by God, not a human achievement.
Better Analogy: Resurrection, Not A Handhold
- Sproul rejects analogies that leave any independent saving act to humans and favors the corpse-resuscitation image.
- He argues the first act of conversion is God raising the spiritually dead to life before any human choice.
