Many people, when they wake up in the morning, there's this decision to be made.

Do I have the time, energy, or the desire to read the Bible?

And then the rest of their day, they either feel excited, that they took the time, or shamed that they didn't.

And it goes on, not even if they even understood or benefited from it, but they believe that the act of reading

the Bible is mandatory for the Christian, and it often just leads to discouragement and shame.

Today, Justin and I want to have a conversation about the joy of Scripture, knowing his word,

and what does the Bible really want from us as far as engaging the word, specifically reading it?

We hope this is encouraging, help us clarifying, 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.

If you're weary, stay tuned.

Or if you're surprised like me, John got started so fast, I didn't know what we were doing.

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