Eschatology & Hope - Part 1

Today’s episode is a special live studio recording in Escondido, CA.  AGR host and Pastor Chris Gordon welcomes to the table Pastor Jon Moffit and Pastor Justin Perdue of Theocast. They dive right into how eschatology has shaped the American church and the ways their different church upbringings affected their views on the end of all things. They discuss amillennialism, postmillennialism and why many churches today have abandoned preaching about the return of Christ. The conversation turns to the importance of understanding that there’s no place for fear and dread when it comes to the end times, and why the return of Christ should be about HOPE!

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro To Live Studio Recording
03:15 - How Eschatology Has Shaped The American Church
04:30 - A Place Of Hope
06:00 - “Left Behind” Viewpoint
07:54 - Judgment Of Behavior
09:10 - Physical Resurrection
10:37 - Growing Up Reformed
11:55 - Hope In The Midst Of Human Suffering
13:25 - Agree With God Or Else
15:20 - Distinction Between The Law & The Gospel
17:15 - Romans 8:1/Revelation 20
18:31 - God’s Desire For Us
21:34 - Dispensationalism & Circumstance
23:11 - Postmillennialism & Pessimism
24:05 - Collapse of Christendom
26:45 - 1 Peter & The Elect
29:00 - Ebb & Flow Of Christian Life

More:
Pastor Jon Moffitt was born and raised in the sunny desert of Southern California. He is the senior pastor of Grace Reformed Church in Spring Hill, TN. Jon is married to Judith, and they have four children: Charis, Titus, Jane, and Knox.

Jon’s father was a pastor for 25 years in California before moving to Utah where the Lord took him home in 2002. After graduating from college in CA, Jon spent several years working in a small church as a youth pastor in Utah. It was while ministering there that he began to feel the need for more theological training and moved back to CA to attend seminary.

While in seminary, he became involved in a local church as the college and young adults pastor until graduating in December of 2011. Thirty days later, with his wife and three kids, Jon moved to Nashville, TN to become the Young Adult Pastor at Community Bible Church. In 2017 Jon was sent out to plan Grace Reformed Church in Spring Hill, TN. Jon is one of the founding members and director of Theocast Ministries.

Pastor Justin Perduewas born in Newport News, VA but grew up in Asheville, NC. His formative years were spent in a Baptist church that was theologically liberal and culturally moralistic (yeah, the worst of every world). He grew up thinking Jesus was legit and the church was whack.

Justin played football at Furman University and majored in business administration. After college, he began a career in business with no thoughts of ever going into vocational ministry. In his early to mid-twenties, Justin was exposed to good teaching for the first time. His life began to change. He was given regular teaching and leadership opportunities in the church. Believers around him encouraged him to go into pastoral ministry, and, eventually, the Lord brought him to a place where that became his desire.

At the end of 2011, Justin moved to Washington, DC to do the pastoral internship at Capitol Hill Baptist Church and then went on staff there as a pastoral assistant. He and his family moved to Asheville in the summer of 2014 to begin the work of planting a church. Covenant Baptist Church was constituted in the fall of 2015. Justin still serves as the lead pastor of CBC.

Justin met his lovely wife Michelle in early 2012 and knew he had found a good thing. They were married at the end of that year and now have four kids: Josiah, Noelle, Titus, and Scottie. In addition to his family—and theology, of course—Justin enjoys the Asheville food and drink scene, music, and pretty much anything having to do with sports.

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