If you've been listening to Theocast for long at all, you maybe have heard us say something like,

don't trust your feelings when it comes to assurance with God or peace with God. And as you're

learning more about the reform faith or the confessional faith, maybe you have concluded that,

okay, well, maybe emotions and feelings are just bad. Maybe I just need to push them to the side and you're

wondering because you live life every day and you feel a lot of things do my feelings as a Christian do they

matter do my emotions matter do they matter to God do they matter my pastor they matter to other people

in my local church what do I do with my emotional life?

So John and I are going to have a conversation about all that stuff today.

And we are going to ultimately take this to the heart of confessionalism is a preoccupation with God and Jesus being for us. And so we process ourselves, our lives, our experiences,

and our emotions through the objective, revealed presence of God, with us, for us, and to save us.

We hope that this is a helpful, encouraging conversation to many. Stay tuned. If you're new to theocast,

you may not have heard of this

word. It's called pietism. 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. Piatism

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 at our website.

Just go to theocast.org.

It is a good day to be with you because we get to talk about Jesus today.

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