Paul tells the church, I'm not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God.

He has to warn us not to be ashamed about it because it consumes something that is far beyond our universe, God's power.

What does that even mean? The modern Christian is a hard time wrapping our head around how words can contain God's power.

That's what this episode is about. How do we enjoy the

benefits of the gospel? And really what Paul is saying is that the world may look at it and that's

something to mock, but the Christian looks at it and says, this is God's power for my life.

We had a wonderful conversation around this subject with Dr. Chris Gordon

and from Abounding Grace Radio. And this is a post-conversation that we had after the conference,

which is a conference on suffering and the return of Christ. All of that is available on YouTube

or our app or on our website. If you want to listen to the conference, the lectures, the panel

discussions, we hope you enjoy.

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. Pietism 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. All right. We are back with Theocast and Abounding Grace together. This was, you guys realized this was a year ago.

We did. We did this this was a year ago.

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