Theocast
Have You Overcorrected in Your Deconstruction?
January 1, 2025
Summary
What comes to mind when you think about God? Do you feel comfort, safety, and love, or do you wrestle with doubt, dread, and judgment? It's been said that our thoughts about God shape every area of our lives, and today Jon and Justin dive deep into this idea. Join them as they explore who God is, what He is like, and how He has revealed Himself through Jesus Christ. Tune in for a thoughtful and honest conversation about faith, feelings, and the character of God.
Topics
- Episode focus: Have You Overcorrected in Your Deconstruction?
- What comes to mind when you think about God?
- Do you feel comfort, safety, and love, or do you wrestle with doubt, dread, and judgment?
- It's been said that our thoughts about God shape every area of our lives, and today Jon and Justin dive deep into this idea
- Join them as they explore who God is, what He is like, and how He has revealed Himself through Jesus Christ
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Transcript
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When you discover the wonders of grace and the freedom that you no longer need to perform at such a level, that your Father will accept you, it's liberating.
And there is a healthy and good way to deconstruct walking away from pietism, legalism, revivalism.
Those are dangerous.
Many throughout the years have been walking away from that.
But there tends to be an attitude of selfishness that remains in the Christian, that Justin and I want to talk about today, to where it's almost like we begin to ignore parts of the gospel that liberated us, like
that part of we still need to confess our sins and we still need to trust in Christ, and it produces something in us.
So, we're going to talk about the over-correction that ends up happening when people go through deconstruction.
Hopefully it's helpful.
Stay tuned.
If you're new to Theocast, you may not have heard of this word.
It's called pietism.
Have You're 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?
