To this end, I entered Christmas break after my first semester of seminary with a used copy of John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion in hand, determined to follow the Berean example of “examining the Scriptures … to see if these things were so” (Acts 17:11). I knew from my upbringing, however, that I needed to test all doctrinal viewpoints by the standard of Holy Scripture. I was initially quite skeptical of this strange, new (to me!) teaching, partly due to widely popularized caricatures, and partly because it seemed to contradict other beliefs I cherished. In my first semester of seminary, I heard about something called “Reformed” theology. I sensed a call to gospel ministry during my junior year of college and, following the counsel of my pastors, enrolled in seminary immediately upon graduation. I was raised in a Bible-believing church committed to teaching the whole counsel of God in the pulpit, the Sunday School classroom, and the home. To countless others, including me, he was a doorway to Reformed theology and piety.
Sproul worked in collaboration with many RTS faculty members. As general editor of the New Geneva Study Bible (published in 1995), Dr. So instrumental was he in establishing the campus that some friends of the seminary on occasion would mistakenly refer to RTS as “RCS.” Ligonier National Conferences in Orlando became important recruiting opportunities for the school, and Ligonier Ministries employed many students and their spouses. Sproul was a leader among the founding faculty of the Orlando campus, and he served a brief tenure as academic dean. Ligonier Ministries’s relocation to central Florida preceded Reformed Seminary’s Florida campus that opened in Maitland in 1989. In 1982 his role at RTS expanded with his appointment as professor of systematic theology, teaching each spring semester. Later that year he was appointed adjunct professor of systematic theology, while continuing to direct the Ligonier Valley Study Center in western Pennsylvania. His relationship with RTS began with a week of special lectures on the Jackson campus in spring, 1978.
Sproul was known and loved as a pastor, teacher, and colleague to many in the RTS Orlando community. Today RTS Orlando joins the broader Reformed and evangelical world in mourning the loss of Dr.
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