Theocast
Why Doctrine Can Feel Cold
February 7, 2024
Summary
Do you ever feel like you know a lot about Jesus--but you can’t remember the last time you felt that he loves you? Has doctrine ever felt cold to you? Have you ever been tempted to pit doctrine and experience against each other? If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, today’s podcast is for you. Jon and Justin have a conversation about Jesus and his love for us. The guys make an effort to pull us into God’s story of redemption and into the way Christ loves us.
Topics
- Episode focus: Why Doctrine Can Feel Cold
- Do you ever feel like you know a lot about Jesus--but you can’t remember the last time you felt that he loves you?
- Has doctrine ever felt cold to you?
- Have you ever been tempted to pit doctrine and experience against each other?
- If you answered “yes” to any of those questions, today’s podcast is for you
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Transcript
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Do you ever feel like you know a lot about Jesus, but you can't remember the last time that you felt loved by him?
Do you ever feel like doctrine is cold, or maybe doctrine is disconnected from your experience of the Christian life, your experience of being known and loved by the Father.
If you've ever wrestled with any of these things, if any of these questions or doubts plague your soul, and today's podcast is for you.
We hope you're encouraged by the love of Christ for you.
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 your 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.
Welcome to Theocast, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ, conversations about the Christian life from a confessional, reformed, and pastoral perspective.
Here at Theocast, we are aiming to clarify the gospel, take the clutter off of it.
We don't ever want Jesus to be obscure.
