Does the Christian life ever feel like you're sitting on a bicycle and you're a pedaling as hard as you possibly can?

And you're not going anywhere because you realize, well, there's no chain on the bike.

That's what we call gospel light, heavy law living.

You feel like you're putting a lot of effort in and you're not going anywhere because we've been emphasizing the wrong power source.

That's what Justin and I want to talk about today.

Where the true source of life and power come from, 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 on our website.

Just go to Theocast.org.

Welcome to Theocast, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ, conversations about Christian life from a confessional reform and pastoral perspective.

Here at Theocast, we aim to take the clutter off of the gospel because we tend to throw a lot of clutter on top of it.

And in doing that, we seek to reclaimline the purpose of the kingdom of Christ,

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