Question for you, the listener. Are we saved by works? The answer to the question might astonish

you. In fact, we are saved by works. The real question, though, is whose works save us? Ours or someone else's?

That will be the topic of the conversation today that John and I get to have with our friend Pat

Abendroth from the Pactam when we will be talking about the active obedience of Christ.

If you don't know what that means, this podcast is for you. If you know what that term means,

this podcast is also for you. Your soul will be encouraged. Jesus is better than we ever thought he was. 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. Yes, we hope to be all three today. Your hosts today are John Moffitt, who is

Pastor of Grace Reform Church in Spring Hill, Tennessee. I'm Justin Perdue, pastor of Covenant

Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina. And we have a special guest on with us today,

and John is going to intro him here in just a moment.

We're pretty geek about this conversation.

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