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Maybe you're out there and you're feeling weary, feeling burdened, you're feeling beat up, left behind, or even in your experience as a Christian in the church, you feel like you've been run over, like you don't fit.

You know that Jesus is legit, but maybe the problem is with you, and you've felt that over and over, been made to feel that over and over, and you just can't shake it.

If that's where you are, this podcast is for you today.

John and I are going to have a pretty tender, honest conversation about the things that matter most to us as pastors and even in some senses, why Theocast exists at all.

And that is to hold out Jesus Christ for us.

He came to save people like you and like me and like John.

So we're going to rejoice over him today, and we're going to talk about him, and we hope you're encouraged by him.

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.