What Robs Us of Joy?

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Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Building off of last week's episode, when we find no joy or rest in our religion, we tend to seek it elsewhere. Christians are prone to clutter their lives will all kinds of things that might be good--but they end up keeping us from the things that will truly bring us joy. On top of this, we naturally think that we need to do things to find rest, when, in reality, we rest in order to do. Jon and Justin talk about all of this on today's episode. Semper Reformanda: Jon and Justin talk personally about leaving pietism and about the spiritual abuse that even occurs in some environments. The guys close by considering how Jesus, himself, is the gospel. Resources:Our episodes on the quest for religious experienceOur episode on leaving pietismOur episode on how pietism ruins good works

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Justin. Today on Theocast, we're going to talk about what it is that robs us of joy and peace in the church.
0:11.0	We talked last week about how we chase so often after religious experience and we turn everything into a subjective reality when it comes to our faith in Christ.
0:19.5	And that basically, friends, exhausts us. And so we have
0:22.6	really no juice left to go about loving one another and doing the things that are really good
0:27.0	for us as outlined in the New Testament. So today we're going to have really part two of that
0:30.9	conversation and talk about how real joy and rest are found as we love one another because
0:37.1	Christ has secured our redemption and our
0:39.7	salvation. We'll talk about the reality of the fact that we need to rest in order to do.
0:44.9	And we hope that makes sense to you. If it doesn't stay tuned, we hope you enjoy the conversation.
0:48.6	And over in SR, we're going to talk about a whole host of things, personal experiences,
0:52.2	and also the fact that Christ is the gospel.
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1:29.7	Welcome to Theocast, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ, conversations about Christian life from a confessional reform perspective that is also pastoral. We're just adding words, phrases,
1:36.7	and that's right. Tags and triggers and all those things to how we bring you in to the show.
1:42.2	That's right. As always, your hosts around the microphone today are John Moffat,
1:47.8	who is pastor of Grace Reformed Church in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
1:51.4	And I'm Justin Purdue,
1:52.7	pastor of Covenant Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina.
1:55.7	It is our pleasure.
1:58.8	Maybe I could even say it's our joy.
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