You ever feel like when you wake up, you think to yourself, I just do not do enough for God.

I feel like I need to be doing more. I see so many people who have like these radical ministries

and faith and so many people are being helped. And all I do is, well, I just go to church.

This podcast is for you. The whole idea of radical Christianity,

radical discipleship, I need to do more. I need to do something extraordinary for God.

That's a pressure that God never designed to have on anybody. But yet he gives you a promise

of how you can do something for the kingdom. And it's called, well, ordinary. 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 reformed and pastoral perspective.

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

I'm John Moffitt. I'm the pastor of Grace Reform Church in Springfield, Tennessee. If you skipped all

that because you hit the 32nd skip, this is what I want you to hear. Our goal today is to clarify the gospel

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