Tag Archives: Ask RC

Will AI Take Over the World? Ghosts in the Machine

Posted on July 21, 2025 by RC

Though he was by no means the first nor the last to make this point, my father did a great service to the church by reminding it that “chance” has no causal power. Indeed it has no power at all, … Continue reading →

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Today’s Classic JCE- Sentimentalism; Love Is; Philosophy

Posted on July 9, 2025 by RC

Love of Emotion, Defining Love and the Love of Wisdom. Just lovely. https://oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=16928201

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Who loves the church? And Why We Should Too

Posted on July 7, 2025 by RC

For a year now, in this space, most Mondays here at RCSproulJr.com I’ve sought to answer questions related to the nature and calling of the church. Such is driven in large part by my contention that the evangelical “church,” for … Continue reading →

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How ought the believer to serve the church?

Posted on June 30, 2025 by RC

There are many weaknesses inherent in the mindset that sees the church like a shopping mall. The seeker sensitive movement has encouraged the church to see itself as a business, marketing the gospel to increase market share. This sands down … Continue reading →

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How does the church effectively serve the believer?

Posted on June 23, 2025 by RC

For almost a year now I’ve been publishing a weekly blog piece under the Ask RC heading on the nature and calling of the church. I have been persuaded for decades that one of the great weaknesses inside the church … Continue reading →

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What does it mean to say the church is apostolic?

Posted on June 16, 2025 by RC

The various competitors to the “one true church” crown, Anglo-Catholicism, Roman Catholicism and eastern Orthodoxy, all make quite a fuss about their pedigrees. Each holds to a doctrine called “apostolic succession” which affirms that the current leadership in their respective … Continue reading →

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What does it mean that the church is holy?

Posted on June 2, 2025 by RC

The Nicene Creed affirms that the church is one, holy, catholic and apostolic. I discussed what is means that the church is one here. When the creed affirms that the church is holy it is making at least three important … Continue reading →

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How Should I Leave My Church? A Few Caveats

Posted on May 26, 2025 by RC

First, be sure you should. One of the reasons the church is so weak in our day is we have subtly adopted a consumerist mentality. We are the consumer and we shop for the church that best suits us. When … Continue reading →

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How can the church grow closer? Chewing on Community

Posted on May 19, 2025 by RC

Community and the Christian have something of a love-hate relationship. Most of us long to be part of a vibrant, immersive, community of love built around Jesus and the gospel. We also, however, want to be left alone. We don’t … Continue reading →

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What distinguishes the believer from the non-believer?

Posted on May 12, 2025 by RC

Right from the get-go we have something of an epistemological/ontological problem. There are differences that are easier to see, and differences that are more central, but harder to discern. On the ontological side the whole of the order of salvation, … Continue reading →

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