Theocast
Despisers of Grace
February 26, 2025
Summary
When people look at the liberal-conservative divide—or perhaps the loose versus strict legalistic divide—in the church, they assume there is nothing in common between these groups. However, Jon and Justin disagree. We believe that both of these groups can be described as despisers of grace. Today, we’re going to explain what we mean by that. We’ll have a conversation about the law, the gospel, the grace of God, and the path to true freedom and rest in Jesus.
Topics
- Episode focus: Despisers of Grace
- When people look at the liberal-conservative divide—or perhaps the loose versus strict legalistic divide—in the church, they assume there is nothing in common between these groups
- We believe that both of these groups can be described as despisers of grace
- Today, we’re going to explain what we mean by that
- We’ll have a conversation about the law, the gospel, the grace of God, and the path to true freedom and rest in Jesus
Links
- More Than Forgiven — Justin Perdue
- Theocast Community
- Rest — free ebook on faith vs. faithfulness
- Partner with Theocast
Transcript
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Sometimes when people look at the liberal conservative divide or the maybe loose versus strict legalistic divide that exists in the church, they think that there's nothing in common between these different groups of people.
John and I disagree.
We think that both of these groups of people are actually what we would call despisers of grace.
And we're gonna explain to you what we mean today.
So, we're gonna have a conversation about the law and the gospel and the grace of God and the path to knowing true freedom and rest in Jesus.
Stay tuned.
Hey guys, this is Justin.
Maybe you know that you are forgiven because of Jesus Christ.
But you're wondering: what does Jesus have to do with my Christian life?
How is he involved in my sanctification, even?
Or is he concerned at all with the ways that I struggle and the way that my life goes up and down?
Is there any comfort for me in Jesus when it comes to all of that?
Well, I've written a book called More Than Forgiven: How Being in Christ Changes Everything, that deals with this topic from Romans chapter 6.
You can find this book at theocast.org.
Welcome to Theocast, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ.
And how are we going to do that?
We're going to do that by having conversations about the Christian life from a Christocentric group perspective, something like that.
See, I try to get clever there, Justin.
You try to get very intelligent activity.
Hey, that giveaway that you're not in the academy, you're a local church pastor.
