Radical Discipleship | Theocast

Do you ever wake up thinking, "I just don't do enough for God"? You feel like you need to be doing more. You see so many people with radical ministries and faith, helping so many, and all you do is, well, just go to church. If this sounds familiar, this podcast is for you. The idea of radical discipleship—the belief that you need to do more or something extraordinary for God—creates a pressure that God never intended for anyone to bear. Yet, He gives you a promise of how you can contribute to His kingdom, and it’s called, well, ordinary.

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[SojournerDidimus]

The ordinary is such a comforting *and true* message!

[JeffMeadowsOutdoors]

Thank you for this. I needed it. I know I’m guilty of thinking that I do nothing for God just because what I do is not big or shiny.

[scottheitmanmarinesurvey]

Ya know. Works are a gift God gives to us. Just like faith. That's my experience.

[joeyrose]

Great message! My wife and I just left a bigger size church that wore us out with programs and busy work. It nearly destroyed our marriage and our family because church activities became our life and marriage and family took a back seat. Now, we are attending a super small church (like 20 people) but it feels more like a true church family and the teaching and preaching of God’s Word is the priority and there are no programs and extra activities. We have Sunday school, Sunday morning worship service and a mid-week Bible study. It is so refreshing.

[albertdenlar]

THANK YOU I HAVE CANCER AM FEELING DOWN YOU GUYS ARE ALWAYS ENCOURAGING TO ME

[Huero]

A lot of the radical theology really started with David Platt back in 2010 with his book “radical”. A lot of people ate it up at first but people quickly became burned out fast. Serving became more about a guilt trip than genuine love.

With Platt’s theology, if your not going on mission trips every year, giving all your money, adopting kids from Africa and driving a junker car then your soul is in peril.

[josephlinger]

Wow, this is amazing. I wish I heard this 4 years ago!

[lukewarmnomore]

I like the Theocast polo Justin is donning

[jeffwatt]

Thank God for the ordinary means of grace administered to the ordinary local church by ordinary offices to ordinary people. Not everything is as it appears to be for behind the appearance of the ordinary lies the extraordinary . How do we know this, not ultimately by outcomes and feelings but because God has communicated this in his word. Ordinary words on a page which actually are the supernatural communications of Almighty God. But alas, do we actually believe this?

[b.eunice]

Yeah, this is my struggles brothers. But I just want to serve Him with obedience and rest in Christ’s finish work.

[SojournerDidimus]

Just curious, how often have you been called crypto-lutherans? 😅

[davidelgeti]

Ordinary or the normal Christian life is what should be expected for a follower of Christ. When we look to Christ in faith the extraordinary becomes the normal Christian life. The ordinary means of grace are an extraordinary gift of Christ to His Bride the Church.
When received by Faith, is it not faith working in and through His Church that points to Christ. The Holy Spirit points us to Christ, looking with eyes of faith we see and testify to what we see and believe all by and through the ordinary means of grace. This is the normal Christian life, the eyes of our hearts looking in faith to Christ.
Not ordinary or normal in the world but seen by the world through the Church. Envied by some but sadly hated by many.

[harpuia]

Nothing I am speaking is directed toward anyone specific.. but its what I am moved to share. I have much I could say, but this is what I see.
You ARE nothing.. we are ALL EQUALLY nothing. God doesnt love us because we are something. God doesnt care about our personal ambition.. He cares about YOU.

Not only were Moses, Abraham, etc not impressive when God found them.. they were messengers.. they were vessels of honor, whom the potter made mighty. If God did not do this, they would be nothing as well.

Every man does what they believe is right.. the Pharisees truly thought they did service unto God by condemning the Lord Jesus Christ. Yet tell me.. if you have a son who is stiff necked and insists on doing what they think you want.. when you tell them what you want, are you pleased?

I see men who believe themselves to be "qualified" by seminary.. by reading books of other men.. by all manner of puffed up worldly knowledge.. yet God has made the wisdom of this world FOOLISH.. worthless.. they think themselves approved because other men approve of them.. after all, that is what people actually care about.

Wisdom and understanding ONLY comes from the Lord. No man is qualified or has truth, unless the Lord has given it to them.. why then do they boast as if it were not given to them freely? What even can any mortal do unless God gives it to them?

[thinkinggingerbeard]

Man, sounds like something the church of Laodicea would argue from the pulpit behind a jaw-cracking yawn.
Now I know that sounds harsh, but the guilt for our inadequacies I don’t think useful to always be so quickly comforted. There's a reason the American Church is called the "Sleepy Church." The country burns around us and what? We need comforted by the fact we're saved? The world burns around our ears and I'm supposed to yawn waiting for the rapture? Forgive the criticality of my ravings here, but I don’t see that as useful. I don't see that as evidence of encouragement to one's developing faith. Now i fully recognize the danger to the flip side of the coin, right? It's the idea I can fix the world, rather than God. Relying on myself rather than God, etc. But I don't understand how having a willing spirit isn't required to grow closer to the Spirit, and therefore Christ.
I dunno man. I'm tired of soft, comforting words of encouragement. Don’t fear the rod. There's nothing wrong with a bit of fire in your belly, from guilt or otherwise.