Rainn Wilson, best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the television sitcom The Office, is out on the circuit promoting his new book, Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution.

Viral reels of Wilson’s recent appearance on the Rich Roll Podcast are being shared by Christians (and non-Christians) on their social media platforms because so much of what Rainn and Rich are talking about speaks to what Pascal referenced when he said, “There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made know through Jesus Christ.”

St. Augustine also famously said, “You move us to delight in praising You; for You have formed us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in You.”

But the spirituality Rainn and Rich are pedaling as a response to our spiritual longings is not not the spirituality Pascal and Augustine proclaimed. Soul Boom offers a revival of ancient heresies which were confronted and refuted by both the Apostles in sacred Scripture and by the church in its infancy.

On today’s episode of Recovering the Christian Mind we’ll hear what Rainn is saying and respond with the Bible.

Who are the two disciples in Luke 24 walking home to Emmaus from Jerusalem on the day of the resurrection of Jesus, and what are the implications for using our homes as welcoming places for the gospel?

What is true of every born-again, Christ-trusting child of God?

If you have truly been born of the Spirit, have repented of your sins, and look to Christ alone for your salvation, the following is true of you:

• You are now and forever will be in spiritual, loving, unbreakable union with God; you are in him and he is in you (Col. 1:2, 27).

• All your sins have been forgiven. That is to say, the guilt that is incurred from your sins, past, present, and future has been forever and finally wiped clean. This is why Paul says there is “no condemnation” for those who are in Christ Jesus by faith (Rom. 8:1).

• You are now and forever will be an adopted child of God (Gal. 4:4–7). This is your identity that defines both who you are and what awaits you on the other side of the grave.

• You are now and forever will be redeemed or ransomed from the condemning power of sin and guilt (Eph. 1:7).

• You are now and forever will be justified in God’s sight, which is to say that through faith in Christ, God has imputed or reckoned to you the righteousness of Jesus and declared you to be perfectly acceptable in his sight, not because of what you have done but because of what Christ has done in living a sinless life and dying a substitutionary death for you (Rom. 3:28; 5:1).

 •You are now and forever will be in spiritual union with Jesus Christ. Or, to use the words of the apostle Paul, you are by faith “in Christ” (Eph. 1:1).

• You are now and forever will be reconciled to God (2 Cor. 5:18–19).

• You are now and forever will be delivered or saved from the wrath of God. You will never face the threat of divine wrath, as Jesus has faced it, endured it, and exhausted it in himself on the cross (Rom. 5:9).

• You are now and forever will be seated together with Christ in heavenly places (Eph. 2:4–7).

From A Dozen Things God Did with Your Sin (and Three Things He’ll Never Do) by Sam Storms, Crossway: 2022