Anxiety and the Gospel

For those of us who are feeling anxious, depressed, dark, and discouraged, this is a conversation for you.

How do we take what we feel and put it in light of the gospel, an objective reality outside of ourselves, and how our feelings tend to adjust and change towards the truth of the gospel.

Please stay tuned.

If you're new to Theocast, you may not have heard of this word.

It's called pietism.

Have you ever felt like the Christian life is a heavy burden versus rest and joy that you wake up worrying about how well you're going to perform instead of thinking about what Christ has done for you.

It's dread versus joy, really.

That's pietism.

Pietism causes Christians to look in on themselves and find their hope not in what Christ has done, but what they're doing.

And we have a little book for you.

It's free.

We want you to download it, and we're going to explain the difference between pietism and what we call confessionalism, reformed theology, really, how it is that we walk by faith, seeing the joy of Christ.

And when Jesus says, Come to me and I will give you rest, what does that look like?

You can download it at our website.

Just go to theocast.org.

Welcome to Theocast, Encouraging Weary Pilgrims to Rest in Christ: Conversations about the Christian Life from a Reformed, Pastoral, and Confessional Perspective.

Today, if you're new to Theocast, the simplest way for us to put this is: we want to clarify the gospel, remove all of its clutter, and then talk about the joys of the kingdom, the real purpose of the

kingdom.

And today is definitely going to be encouraging to the weary saint and the weary soldier.

And your hosts today are Justin Perdue, pastor of Governant Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina.