Theocast
Gospel Shrewdness and Discernment Ministries
October 16, 2024
Summary
Today's conversation is one that Jon and Justin wanted to have as they look at the broader Christian landscape. Even within their own churches, it seems that many Christians operate out of fear and are overly concerned with certain theological directions. This fear may prevent us from partnering with sincere, well-meaning Christians to promote the gospel and could stunt our own growth by keeping us from learning from those outside our tradition, who have valuable insights on many aspects of the Christian life. This episode is two pastors processing things in real time, and we hope it will be helpful, freeing, and comforting for you.
Topics
- Episode focus: Gospel Shrewdness and Discernment Ministries
- Today's conversation is one that Jon and Justin wanted to have as they look at the broader Christian landscape
- Even within their own churches, it seems that many Christians operate out of fear and are overly concerned with certain theological directions
- This fear may prevent us from partnering with sincere, well-meaning Christians to promote the gospel and could stunt our own growth by keeping us from learning from those…
- This episode is two pastors processing things in real time, and we hope it will be helpful, freeing, and comforting for you
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Transcript
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Today is a conversation that John and I wanted to have because we look around at the Christian landscape broadly.
We even consider members of our own churches, and it seems that many of us operate out of fear and are so concerned with going in aberrant directions theologically that it's possible that we hinder our ability to partner with
other sincere, well-meaning Christians to promote the gospel.
And it's possible that we even stunt our growth and our ability to learn from others who might be outside our tradition who have said some really good things about a lot of topics in the Christian life.
So, this is two pastors processing things in real time, and we hope this conversation is helpful, freeing, comforting for you.
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.
Welcome to Theocast, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ.
Conversations about the Christian life from a reformed perspective.
