Gutting the Scripture of Its Power

Many Christians today feel absolutely drained and powerless.

They have tried every solution under the sun to overcome their sin, to grow in Christ, to be mature, to be sanctified, and they feel defeated, and they even often even question: Am I even God's?

Do I belong to Him?

It seems as if the power for Christianity is gone.

How did that happen?

It's exactly what Justin and I want to talk about today.

What happened?

How did the power of the gospel get gutted from the Bible?

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.