Theocast
What Does It Mean to Walk by the Spirit?
April 24, 2024
Summary
Do you ever wonder what it means to walk by the spirit? It's a phrase found in several places in the New Testament. If you asked ten different Christians what it means to walk by the spirit, you'd likely get ten different answers. But today on the pod, Jon and Justin are going to take a swing at answering that question. We're going to explore this concept and offer our perspectives. Our answers might surprise you.
Topics
- Episode focus: What Does It Mean to Walk by the Spirit?
- Do you ever wonder what it means to walk by the spirit?
- It's a phrase found in several places in the New Testament
- If you asked ten different Christians what it means to walk by the spirit, you'd likely get ten different answers
- But today on the pod, Jon and Justin are going to take a swing at answering that question
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Transcript
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What does it mean to walk by the Spirit?
This is a phrase that's used at a number of places in the New Testament.
And if you were to ask 10 different Christians what that means, to walk in the Spirit or to walk by the Spirit, you may very well get 10 different answers.
Well, today, on the pod, John and I are going to take our attempt at answering that question.
We're going to take the bat off our shoulder and take a swing.
What does it mean to walk by the Spirit?
The answers that we give might not be what you expect.
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 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?
You can download it at our website.
Just go to theocast.org.
