Many Christians today feel absolutely drained and powerless.

They have tried every solution under the sun to overcome their sin, to grow in Christ, to be mature, to be sanctified, and they feel defeated.

And they often even question, am I even gods? Do I belong to him?

It seems as if the power for Christianity is gone. How did that

happen? It's exactly what Justin I want to talk about today. What happened? How did the power

of the gospel get gutted from the Bible? Stay tuned. If you're new to Theocast, you may not have

heard of this word. It's called pietism.

If 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, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ.

We have conversations here at Theocast about the Christian life from a confessional, reformed, and pastoral perspective.

Your hosts today are John Moffat,

who is pastor of Race Reform Church in Spring Hill, Tennessee.

And I am Justin Purdue,

pastor of Covenant Baptist Church

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