16 Ounces To The Pound - Jonathan Pickens

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Nearly half of evangelicals believe there are many paths to God, but Jesus’ words in John 14 tell a very different story. Jonathan Pickens invites us to see Jesus not as one way among many, but as the way who brings true comfort, clear truth, real communion with God, and a life-changing call to follow Him.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Passion City Church podcast.
0:04.7	To learn more about Passion City Church, including our gathering times in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., visit us online at passioncitychurch.com.
0:18.7	Recently, I came across a statistic that Ligonier and Lifeway two ministries teamed up to conduct a survey of theology around what do evangelicals believe across the U.S.
0:33.9	And much of the survey exposed what you'd expect to be true of typical traditional Christian
0:41.0	beliefs, and yet some of them were a bit shocking or surprising.
0:46.0	For example, we have a picture of the screen of one of them that grabbed my attention.
0:51.8	This image will show, they asked the question, do you agree or do you not,
0:56.1	with God accepts the worship of all religions, including Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
1:03.6	47% of believers said that they do, that they do believe that God would accept the worship. Or in other words, that
1:12.6	47% of evangelicals would agree that there are multiple ways to get to the Father, is what
1:22.2	the survey revealed. And they're not asking on believers, they're asking believers. And I'm not sure where that
1:29.1	lands with you. Maybe it's surprising or maybe you're thinking to yourself, I don't know what I think
1:34.2	about that. I've never thought about it. Be good to think about it. What do you think? I want to know
1:43.7	what does Jesus think about that? Because today, and in this collection that we've been in, we're really not here to ask, what do other people think? We're really not here to ask, what is your favorite podcaster think? We're not here to ask what is your favorite preacher or teacher think. We not here to ask, what is your favorite preacher or
2:01.6	teacher think? We're here to ask, what does Jesus think? Because what Jesus has to say is going
2:08.6	to speak to this issue, and what's concerning is that this statistic reveals at least ambiguity on
2:14.2	the subject that is taken from among, assumingly, Bible-believing people who
2:21.2	identify with the words and teachings of Jesus. And so I want to know what does Jesus say. It reminds me
2:27.4	of the words that J. C. Ryle put in his book called holiness, where he said, there is a vast
2:32.5	quantity of so-called Christianity nowadays, which you cannot
2:37.2	declare positively unsound, but which nevertheless is not full measure, good weight, and
2:45.1	16 ounces to the pound. It is a Christianity in which there is undeniably something about Christ, something about grace,
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