Theocast
Covenant Theology VS Dispensationalism
March 13, 2024
Summary
What are the major differences between covenant theology and dispensationalism? That’s a question we get a lot. Jon and Justin sit down to discuss the differences under three main headings: Christ in all of Scripture, law/gospel distinction, and the covenant of works (active obedience of Christ).
Topics
- Episode focus: Covenant Theology VS Dispensationalism
- What are the major differences between covenant theology and dispensationalism?
- Jon and Justin sit down to discuss the differences under three main headings: Christ in all of Scripture, law/gospel distinction, and the covenant of works (active obedience of…
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Transcript
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Many of you listening to this podcast grew up in dispensationalism.
Or maybe you weren't trained in it, but you grew up in a context where by default you absorbed it.
We get a lot of questions here at Theocast about the differences between our perspective and that of dispensationalism.
So we thought it would be a good idea to sit down and record an episode where we talk about the distinctives between covenant theology, which is what we hold here, versus dispensationalism.
What are those differences?
Major ones, and why do they matter?
That's the topic of today's conversation.
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, reform 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 looks like?
You can download it at our website.
Just go to theocast.org.
