When you discover the wonders of grace and the freedom that you no longer need to perform at such a level that your father will accept you, it's liberating.

And there is a healthy and good way to deconstruct walking away from pietism, legalism, revivalism.

Those are dangerous. Many throughout the years have been walking away from that.

But there tends to be an attitude of selfishness that remains in the Christian that Justin and I want

to talk about today to where it's almost like we begin to ignore parts of the gospel that liberated us.

Like that part of we still need to confess our sins and we still need a trust in Christ and it produces

something in us. So we're going to talk about the overcorrection that ends up happening when people

go through deconstruction. Hopefully itself will 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.

Welcome to Theocast, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ.

Conversations about the Christian life from a confessional, reformed, and pastoral perspective.

If you are wondering what we're trying to do here at Theocast, we are simply trying to take the clutter off of the gospel. We want Christ to be obvious and always in our view. And we are aiming to reclaim the

purpose of the kingdom of God's by taking the clutter off the gospel. Your hosts today are

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