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08/27/2026

Part 4. Three answers from the street, and now the answer.

Every person we asked gave us a version of their own thoughts. Stay true to yourself. Be obedient. Keep
the list. Isaiah 55 says that is exactly the problem. My thoughts are not your thoughts, and My ways are
not your ways.

Read verse 7 and you get the response God actually asks for. Let the wicked forsake his way and the
unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return to the LORD.

Forsake. Return. That is repentance, and it answers the question none of them could. You do not get in by refining your thinking. You get in by trading it.

Which is why agreement is not enough. You can nod at every word God says and never move an inch.
Repentance means a changed mind, and a changed mind shows up as changed feet. Romans 12:2. Transformed, not informed.

So open the Word, find one place your thinking does not match His, and watch what you do next. That
moment is the whole thing.

08/25/2026

Part 3. He takes God's commands seriously, and he is right that Messiah is the center of the whole thing. Hold onto that.

Two places it goes wrong.

First, he splits the standard. Seven for the nations, more for the Jew, as if God grades on who you were born as. Romans 2:11 says God shows no partiality. Romans 3:22 and 23 says there is no distinction, all have sinned.

Second, and this is the bigger one, he has the standard itself too low. It was never seven laws, and it was never six hundred and thirteen. Jesus said be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. That is
the bar, because God is the bar.

Measure yourself against a list and you can feel like you are climbing. Measure yourself against God and
the list stops being a ladder and becomes a mirror.

So the way in cannot be a record you build. It has to be a righteousness you receive. 2 Corinthians 5:21.
He became sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

That is why the first word was repent. Not perform harder. Turn, and stop trusting your list.

08/20/2026

Part 2. We took the question to the streets: what does it take to enter the kingdom of heaven? Two people, two very different answers.

The first was raised Buddhist and was honest that heaven is something he is still wrestling with. Credit for that. He did not pretend. His answer was stay true to who I am and keep exploring, because no one is born a sinner.

The second answered like someone who grew up around church. Be obedient. Practice what you believe. Read your Bible, go to church, pay your tithes, do the good things.

Put them side by side and you have the two answers almost everyone gives. One trusts the heart. The other trusts the hands. Scripture closes both doors.

On the heart: Jeremiah 17:9 says the heart is deceitful above all things. Psalm 51:5 says we are sinners from the womb. Not born neutral, born bent. So stay true to yourself is not the way in. It is the very thing we need rescuing from.

On the hands: reading your Bible, going to church, giving. All good. All commanded. None of it is the price of admission. Ephesians 2:8 and 9 says by grace you have been saved through faith, not of works, so that no one can boast. Do those things without a turned heart and you have religion, not repentance.

Notice what neither answer mentioned. Jesus. And He is the whole point. Repentance is turning from the heart and the hands you were trusting and trusting Him instead.

Follow along as we keep asking. The next answer goes somewhere different.

08/18/2026

Part 1. New question for the streets this week: what must you do to be accepted into the kingdom of heaven?

Before we ask anyone else, notice what Jesus did not say. He did not say clean up first. He did not say get your beliefs organized. His very first word was repent, and repent is not something you achieve, it is a direction you face. Toward the light or away from it.

That is what makes this question uncomfortable. It cannot be answered with a checklist. It can only be answered by looking at what you actually love. Plenty of people want heaven. Far fewer want the light, because the light shows everything.

Matthew 4:17 records it plainly: repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. The kingdom came near in a Person. So the entrance question is really a Person question. What do you do with Jesus?

We are taking that to strangers this week. Some answers will surprise you. Follow along as we ask.

08/14/2026

Part 4. We asked the streets what it would take to convince them that Jesus is King. Now we take the question to Scripture, and it turns back on us: how do you know that Jesus is your King?

Psalm 2 gives the answer. Kiss the Son. It is a picture of submission and obedience. Not a feeling, a commitment. Have you submitted your life to the King of kings? Have you committed to obey Him above your feelings, above culture, above your preferences?

And Scripture says it is right to fear the Son. Because Jesus is not one of many kings. He is the one and only true King, the King of kings and Lord of lords, with the power to both create and destroy.

Here is the good news about kissing the Son and fearing the King. Proverbs 19:23 says the fear of the Lord leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied. Fearing this King is not a burden. It is where life and rest are found.

So the street question comes home. Have you kissed the Son?

08/12/2026

Part 3. We took the question to the streets: what convinced you personally that Jesus is King?

This answer got so much right. The prophets came to this earth and they sinned. Every one of them. Jesus never did. Everything He said, He did. He died for our sins. So for this man, king is not a big enough word.

One thing needs to be said clearly though. He called Jesus a god. Scripture says something stronger. Jesus is not a god among others. He is the God. There is only one, and Jesus said it Himself: I and the Father are one. John opens his Gospel with it too. The Word was God, and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.

And his instinct about the prophets was exactly right. A prophet points to God. Jesus forgave sins, accepted worship, and said before Abraham was, I am. Hebrews says He was tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin. No prophet ever made that claim. No prophet ever could.

More than a king. More than a prophet. More than a god. He is the one true God who died for our sins and rose again.

We took this question to the streets. Next, we take it to Scripture. Follow to see what God's Word says about Jesus as King.

08/06/2026

Part 2. We took the question to the streets: what would it take to convince you that Jesus is King?

This answer came from Maimonides' criteria for the Messiah: a Davidic king who keeps the Torah, rebuilds the temple, and gathers Israel.

Here's the problem. Those criteria come from a 12th century rabbi, not from Scripture. And Scripture itself paints a different picture. Isaiah 53 describes a Messiah who suffers for the sins of His people before He reigns. Daniel 9 says the Anointed One would be cut off before the temple was destroyed in AD 70. That rules out any future candidate and points straight to Jesus.

Jesus is the Son of David who kept the Law perfectly, and He is gathering a people from every nation right now. The temple? He said destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up. He was speaking of His body. He came first to suffer. He is coming again to reign.

Measured by Scripture, not by Maimonides, Jesus meets every criterion.

Follow along as we keep asking. The conversations only get more interesting from here.

08/05/2026

What would it take to convince you that Jesus is King?

The Gospel of Matthew was written with one purpose: to present Jesus as King. And it makes the case six ways.

His birth. His character. Over 100 fulfilled prophecies. His miracles. His teaching. And a resurrection He predicted before it happened.

This week we're taking that question to the streets and asking real people.

Follow along to see how they answer.

06/29/2026

Everyone has a Jesus. The only real question is where they got Him.

Years ago Elton John gave Parade magazine his version. Jesus, he said, was a compassionate, brilliant, deeply understanding man who, conveniently, seemed to agree with him about everything. That is culture's Jesus. Read enough interviews and you meet him constantly. Kind, affirming, vaguely spiritual, and he never once tells you that you are wrong.

There is another popular version. The buddy. The homeboy. The Jesus who shows up to improve your life a little and make things easier.

Here is the problem with both.

They were not discovered. They were built. A Jesus assembled out of your own preferences will always end up looking suspiciously like you. He shares your opinions, blesses your plans, and confronts none of your sins. And that Jesus saves no one. The person who already thinks life is pretty good has no use for a savior who only fine-tunes it. So they pass. Not because the real Christ was offered and refused, but because a counterfeit was handed to them and they saw straight through it.

This is exactly what happens without divine revelation. Left to ourselves we do not find God. We manufacture one. We trade His glory for an image we are more comfortable with and call it faith (Romans 1:22-23).

The real Jesus is not a projection. He is the God-man who stepped into His own creation to die for the sins of His people. You will never reason your way there. You will never feel your way there. No magazine, no instinct, no upgraded version of your own opinion will ever produce Him. You know who He is for one reason only. God revealed it. He spoke. And what He says about His Son does not flatter us. It saves us.

That is why the Word is not optional. Lose the Bible and you do not lose a few facts about Jesus. You lose Jesus, and keep a god of your own making.

So here is the question. The Jesus you carry around in your head, where did He actually come from? Your assumptions, or God's revelation? Only one of them can save you, and you do not get to vote on which.

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06/24/2026

We asked two people, and between their answers you can hear something worth slowing down for.

One of them said that when you spend real time in Scripture, you cannot miss what it says, whatever question or situation you bring to it. That is the clarity and sufficiency of the Word, and it is exactly right.

The other spoke with real warmth about God. He speaks through His Word in the mornings, they said, and also through a song in a low moment, a lyric that lifts and reminds them of God's love and who they are. There is genuine affection for the Lord in that, and it is good.

So this is not a correction so much as an invitation to put the weight in the right place.

A song can stir the heart. A friend can encourage you. A moment can move you, and God can certainly use any of it. But none of that is where God has bound Himself to speak with authority. He has done that finally and fully in His Son, and in the Scriptures that testify to Him (Hebrews 1:1-2). That is the gift.

And what a gift it is. Think about what we actually have. The God who made everything did not leave us guessing at Him through moods and impressions that shift by the hour. He sat down and told us. Plainly. In words we can read, return to, and trust. The same God who is too holy to approach put His mind in a book and handed it to sinners. That is staggering, and most of us hold it far too casually.

So the song that reminds you God is real is a kindness. Receive it with thanks. But notice that the song only knows what it knows because the Word said it first. Run everything back to that Word and test it there (Isaiah 8:20). What agrees with Scripture is solid ground. What doesn't will not hold you, however good it felt.

Which leaves a gentle question. When you want to hear from God, will you settle for an echo, or go to the voice itself?

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