What is the difference between godliness and legalism?

Sometimes when this is asked, and someone gives the definition of godliness, it actually is legalism, or even pietism.

The difference is important, and the Bible talks about it often.

And today, Justin and I want to explain to you where heart-filled, God-glorifying godliness comes from,

and the damages of the lies of Satan, which is

legalism and pietism. 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

our website. Just go to Theocast.org. Welcome to Theocast, encouraging weary pilgrims to

rest in Christ.

Conversations about the Christian life from a reformed perspective.

Today, Justin and I, we seek to remove the clutter off the gospel

and explain what does it mean to seek first the kingdom of Christ?

What is the kingdom?

That's a good question.

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