Theocast
What Robs Us of Joy?
March 2, 2022
Summary
Building off of last week's episode, when we find no joy or rest in our religion, we tend to seek it elsewhere. Christians are prone to clutter their lives will all kinds of things that might be good--but they end up keeping us from the things that will truly bring us joy. On top of this, we naturally think that we need to do things to find rest, when, in reality, we rest in order to do. Jon and Justin talk about all of this on today's episode.
Topics
- Episode focus: What Robs Us of Joy?
- Building off of last week's episode, when we find no joy or rest in our religion, we tend to seek it elsewhere
- Christians are prone to clutter their lives will all kinds of things that might be good--but they end up keeping us from the things that will truly bring us joy
- On top of this, we naturally think that we need to do things to find rest, when, in reality, we rest in order to do
- Jon and Justin talk about all of this on today's episode
Transcript
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Hi, this is Justin.
Today on Theocast, we're going to talk about what it is that robs us of joy and peace in the church.
We talked last week about how we chase so often after religious experience, and we turn everything into a subjective reality when it comes to our faith in Christ.
And that basically, friends, exhausts us.
And so we have really no juice left to go about loving one another and doing the things that are clearly good for us as outlined in the New Testament.
So today we're gonna have really part two of that conversation and talk about how real joy and rest are found as we love one another because Christ has secured our redemption and our salvation.
We'll talk about the reality of the fact that we need to rest in order to do.
And we hope that makes sense to you.
If it doesn't, stay tuned.
We hope you enjoy the conversation.
And over in SR, we're going to talk about a whole host of things, personal experiences, and also the fact that Christ is the gospel.
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Welcome to Theocast, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ, conversations about the Christian life from a confessional reform perspective that is also pastoral.
We're just adding words and phrases and tags and triggers and all those things to how we bring you in to the show.
That's right.
As always, you are hosts around the microphone today 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.
It is our pleasure, maybe I could even say it's our joy
to be able to talk with you guys today about stuff that matters to us, certainly as pastors, as Christians, but we trust also matters to you.
