The hardest part about Christianity at times can be the one we say we love the most, we've never seen.

We've never touched them, never had a conversation with them. And that can be hard. And we want to have

this significant connection to our God and King Christ. And I, we believe, Justin and I, that

scripture can do that for us and that there are times

through the stories and illustrations and the epistles that we can experience the intimate

and emotional side of Christ, dare we say, there's an experienced side of the Christian faith.

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, encouraging worried pilgrims to rest in Christ.

Conversations about the Christian life from a reform, pastoral, and covenantal, confessional.

Lots of things.

Guys who are broken who love to talk about Jesus kind of way.

Guys who love the law on the gospel and different things like that.

Your host today are Justin Perdue pastor of Covenant Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina,

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