Gospel-Lite and Law-Heavy Living

Does the Christian life ever feel like you're sitting on a bicycle and you are pedaling as hard as you possibly can and you're not going anywhere?

Because you realize, well, there's no chain on the bike.

That's what we call cost-polite, heavy law living.

You feel like you're putting a lot of effort in, and you're not going anywhere because we've been emphasizing the wrong power source.

That's what Justin and I want to talk about today: where the true source of life and power comes from.

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 it 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 confessional, reform, and pastoral perspective.