Theodcast, we get this question a lot. What about Second Peter when it says that we should be confirming our calling an election by our obedience?

Isn't that really a way for us to be examining ourselves and finding our assurance saying, look, my obedience aligned with my confession?

Yes and no. That passage has probably hurt more people than it's helped them. And Peter wrote it to help them. He actually wrote it to encourage them. So if you read 2nd Peter 1, 10, and you're discouraged, you should keep listening. That is not what was intended. 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, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ.

We have conversations here at Theocast about the Christian life from a reformed confessional and pastoral perspective.

And your host today, the usual suspects, John Moffat, who is pastor of Grace Reform Church in

Spring Hill, Tennessee. And I'm Justin Purdue, pastor of Covenant Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina.

This episode is going to be coming to you in the new year in the year of our Lord 2025.

But for John and myself,

this is the final, final recording. So this is our final day of recording, but this is our second of two episodes on our final day. So this is our last offering in the year of our Lord

24. And John, I'm glad to have been able to do this for another year with you, man. Should the Lord Terry, I hope we got a number of years left to do this.

And this has been a great joy in my life.

I know you feel the same.

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