Theocast
Thoughts on Costi Hinn and Cheap Grace
June 11, 2025
Summary
Throughout the years, Theocast has received all kinds of messages and emails. At times, you ask us to address certain topics, and while we can’t respond to everything, we do our best to select a few. This is one we wanted to talk about. We love our dear brother Costi, and in this sermon, he’s expressing a concern about Christian hypocrisy—people who claim to believe while showing no obedience. Jon and Justin want to reflect on this sermon, share our thoughts, and point out where there may be some law/gospel confusion. We also aim to interact with Costi’s concerns and offer some helpful insights from both Peter and Titus.
Topics
- Costi Hinn’s concern about hypocrisy and obedience
- Charitable reflection on cheap-grace accusations
- Where the sermon may miss gospel clarity
Links
- Costi Hinn’s Sermon on Christian Hypocrisy
- More Than Forgiven — Justin Perdue
- Theocast Community
- Rest — free ebook on faith vs. faithfulness
- Partner with Theocast
Transcript
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Throughout the years, Theocast receives all kinds of messages and emails.
And at times, you ask us to address certain things, and we cannot address them all, but once in a while, we do our best to try and pick some.
And this is one we wanted to talk about.
We love our dear brother, Costi Hen.
This is a sermon where he's trying to express a concern about hypocritical Christianity, hypocrisy, where there are people in the church who maybe not have a real faith and they're claiming faith, but there's no obedience.
So, Justin and I want to talk about this sermon, give our thoughts on it, and maybe point out how there's some law gospel confusion and interact with Costi and maybe provide some helpful thoughts from both Peter and Titus.
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.
Here at Theocast, we encourage weary pilgrims to rest in Jesus Christ.
Yes, we're still doing that.
We have conversations about the Christian life from a confessional, reformed, and pastoral perspective.
Your hosts are John Moffat, who is pastor of Grace Reformed Church in Spring Hill, Tennessee, and I'm Justin Perdue, pastor of Covenant Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina.
Here at Theocast, we like to take the clutter off the gospel, John, and we main aim, I should say, to make Jesus very clear.
