What Does It Mean to Confirm Our Election?

A Theocast, we get this question a lot.

What about 2 Peter when it says that we should be confirming our calling and election by our obedience?

Isn't that really a way for us to be examining ourselves and finding our assurance, saying, Look, my obedience aligns with my confession.

Yes, and no, that passage has probably hurt more people than it's helped them.

And Peter wrote it to help them, he actually wrote it to encourage them.

So if you read 2 Peter 1:10 and you're discouraged, you should keep listening.

That is not what was intended.

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 curse in 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, 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 on our website.