Theocast
The Quest for Religious Experience
February 23, 2022
Summary
Is the Christian life one where believers move from spiritual experience to spiritual experience? Or from triumph to triumph? Or is the Christian life one where we learn to trust Christ in the midst of weakness and the battle against sin? What does it mean to be satisfied in Christ? Jon and Justin seek to answer these questions and consider how the quest to find true religion in anything subjective leaves us unsettled and exhausted.
Topics
- Episode focus: The Quest for Religious Experience
- Is the Christian life one where believers move from spiritual experience to spiritual experience?
- Or is the Christian life one where we learn to trust Christ in the midst of weakness and the battle against sin?
- What does it mean to be satisfied in Christ?
- Jon and Justin seek to answer these questions and consider how the quest to find true religion in anything subjective leaves us unsettled and exhausted
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Transcript
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Hi, this is John, and today on Theocast, Justin and I have a conversation about the quest for spiritual experience.
You may have felt this where you're always trying to get back or reach that new high where you feel close to God and you're loving Him as He loves you, and yet you're falling short and you're wondering if
there's something wrong with you.
When we look at history, where this possibly came from, and how it's the exact opposite of resting in the sufficiency of Christ.
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Thanks for listening.
Welcome to Theocast, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ: Conversations about the Christian life from a reformed confessional and pastoral perspective, we're just going to throw a new in there.
Look out.
The man alive.
Justin and I are coming off the weekend.
It's a Wednesday morning, and yes, we are excited to be here.
Your host today, Justin Perdue, pastor of Covenant Baptist Church in Nashville, North Carolina, and myself, John Moffitt, pastor of Grace Reform Church in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
Someone got confused that I was in Columbia, but I am in Spring Hill.
Our church plant is in Columbia.
If you live there, you can go visit Pastor Patrick Crandall.
He's doing a fantastic job.
Justin, today's a fun subject.
