Theocast
Our Thoughts on John Piper and Falling Away
May 7, 2025
Summary
Recently, a video clip from the Coram Deo Conference began circulating online, featuring John Piper making comments about falling away from the living God—and how that warning needs to be preached. The message that one can fall away must be clearly communicated, with no punches pulled. Theocast was brought into the online conversation surrounding this video, and we've received a number of questions about our thoughts on what Piper said. Today, we aim to charitably engage with John’s comments and express our concerns about his message. We hope this conversation brings clarity and answers some of your questions. Ultimately, as always, our desire is to point you to Jesus Christ and to help you see from the Scriptures that He truly is enough to save you—and that you don’t need to be afraid.
Topics
- John Piper’s warning about falling away from the living God
- Charitable engagement with the Coram Deo clip
- How Theocast hears the warning without losing assurance
Links
- More Than Forgiven — Justin Perdue
- Theocast Community
- Rest — free ebook on faith vs. faithfulness
- Partner with Theocast
Transcript
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Recently, there was a video clip circulating around from the Quorum Deo conference in which John Piper made comments about falling away from the living God and how that needs to be preached.
That warning that you can fall away needs to be preached to people.
No punch is pulled.
And Theocast was brought into the online conversation about this video, and we've gotten a number of questions about what we think of what Piper said.
And so today is our attempt to charitably interact with John's comments and to express our concerns over what he said.
So we hope that this conversation is clarifying certainly, that it answers some of your questions.
And ultimately, like we do all the time, we want to point you to Jesus Christ and to help you see from the scriptures that Jesus really is enough to save you and that you don't need to be afraid.
Stay tuned.
Hey guys, this is Justin.
Maybe you know that you are forgiven because of Jesus Christ, but you're wondering: what does Jesus have to do with my Christian life?
How is he involved in my sanctification, even?
Or is he concerned at all with the ways that I struggle and the way that my life goes up and down?
Is there any comfort for me in Jesus when it comes to all of that?
Well, I've written a book called More Than Forgiven: How Being in Christ Changes Everything that deals with this topic from Romans chapter 6.
You can find this book at theocast.org.
Welcome to Theocast, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ.
I'm a little weary today, John.
Yeah, if you're feeling weary,
we got some sufficiency for Christ for you to feast on.
So it's going to be good.
