# Digging Into the Word: Confessional Christianity vs Transformation with Brad Cummings │ BardsFM

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Published: 2026-06-28T17:17:28+00:00
Episode link: https://www.bards.fm/e/digging-into-the-word-confessional-christianity-vs-transformation-with-brad-cummings-%e2%94%82-bardsfm/
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Episode 4161 │ June 28, 2026 Raising your hand for heaven is not the same as being transformed. A black belt doesn't mean you've arrived — it means you're finally ready to begin. WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS Scott Kesterson and Brad Cummings open with a shared frustration — that so much of modern Christianity has settled for the confessional declaration of faith as the endpoint rather than the beginning, producing a church full of people who have raised their hand for heaven but never experienced the actual transaction of the new creation — and build the case from Romans 8, John 1, and the book of Job that what God is after is not religious performance or disciplined obedience but sonship: the genuine indwelling of the Holy Spirit that produces transformation from the inside rather than behavior modification from the outside. The conversation moves through the difference between the old covenant and the new — man promising obedience versus God writing His law on the heart — the church's pornography and abuse crisis as evidence of what happens when leaders operate from a broken nature they are trying to discipline rather than a new nature that has been genuinely begotten from above, and the book of Job as the oldest book of the Bible and the first answer to why transformation requires fire, why the Hasatan is a God-appointed refiner rather than an equal adversary, and why Job's restoration came not from confessing a list of sins but from an honest encounter with the living God that moved him from I have heard of you to now I see you. The episode closes with Brad's distillation of the new covenant in a single sentence: if you get the loving correct, the keeping will follow. KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED What is the operative difference between the old covenant and the new — and wh…

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