Theocast
Be Honest... Are You Scared of Jesus Coming Back? (w/ Chris Gordon)
February 14, 2024
Summary
Are you afraid of the second coming of Jesus? You might have been taught a fearful eschatology. The book of Revelation should not be a scary thing for the Christian. Instead, we should find ourselves encouraged and our hope strengthened by our study of it. Join Jon and Justin in a conversation with Rev. Chris Gordon from Abounding Grace Radio in this podcast from the January 2024 Theocast/AG Radio Conference, "Suffering & The Hope of Christ's Return."
Topics
- Episode focus: Be Honest... Are You Scared of Jesus Coming Back? (w/ Chris Gordon)
- Are you afraid of the second coming of Jesus?
- You might have been taught a fearful eschatology
- The book of Revelation should not be a scary thing for the Christian
- Instead, we should find ourselves encouraged and our hope strengthened by our study of it
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Transcript
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When you think about Jesus coming back, does it bring joy and hope, anticipation, or fear, or possibly confusion?
On today's episode, that's what we're going to be discussing.
What happened to the return of Christ, what happened to eschatology, and why it matters.
And it's a special recording for those of you that heard about the conference.
This is the live podcast that we did with Chris Gordon at the conference in Escondido.
We're excited about it.
And all of the audio and videos are available.
If you want to go to the community website or you go to the app and download it and listen to the lectures that myself, Chris, Justin did, and Dr.
Bob Godfrey, including all of the panel discussions.
So stay tuned for a lively discussion with Justin Perdue, myself, John Moffat, and Chris Gordon.
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?
