Theocast
Radical Discipleship
September 11, 2024
Summary
Do you ever wake up thinking, "I just don't do enough for God"? You feel like you need to be doing more. You see so many people with radical ministries and faith, helping so many, and all you do is, well, just go to church. If this sounds familiar, this podcast is for you. The idea of radical discipleship—the belief that you need to do more or something extraordinary for God—creates a pressure that God never intended for anyone to bear. Yet, He gives you a promise of how you can contribute to His kingdom, and it’s called, well, ordinary.
Topics
- Episode focus: Radical Discipleship
- Do you ever wake up thinking, "I just don't do enough for God"?
- You feel like you need to be doing more
- You see so many people with radical ministries and faith, helping so many, and all you do is, well, just go to church
- If this sounds familiar, this podcast is for you
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Transcript
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You ever feel like when you wake up, you think to yourself, I just do not do enough for God.
I feel like I need to be doing more.
I see so many people who have like these radical ministries and faith and so many people are being helped, and all I do is, well, I just go to church.
This podcast is for you.
The whole idea of radical Christianity, radical discipleship, I need to do more, I need to do something extraordinary for God.
That's a pressure that God never designed to have on anybody.
But yet he gives you a promise of how you can do something for the kingdom.
And it's called, well, ordinary.
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 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 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.
