Hi, this is John. And today on Theocast, Justin and I want to dive into something that's relevant to all of us as Christians.

How do we know if we're truly eating the meat of the word? What does Paul mean or the writer of Hebrews when he references that?

And how is it? We often maybe confuse the meat of the word with something like pietism. 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.org.

Welcome to Theocast, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ's conversations about the Christian life from a reform, confessional, and pastoral perspective.

We seek to clarify the gospel and reclaim the purpose of the kingdom.

And that is definitely what's going to be happening today.

What is the gospel and how does it apply to the kingdom in light

of things like milk and meat, Justin? So it'll be fun. I just want everybody to know that John is

centered, not only in his shot in terms of the video, but also in his soul. So we look forward to

what he has to offer us today. That's right. Your hosts are Justin Perdue, who you just

heard of Covenant Baptist Church. A little bit of inside baseball there, fam. He's the pastor there.

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