November 15, 2015: I Am the Way – Landon Lynch

This verse has been used so often to exclude as many as possible, draw lines and make claims about the Christian faith being thee one and only true faith. And we have gotten a lot of mileage out of this. What we miss however, is he is saying about himself – not us. Our first response on hearing these words should be that if Jesus is the way, truth and life then we are not. But for some reason we assume he is talking about our way of thinking, our certain religion or our particular group. 

Which raises the question: Will we use something Jesus said to make him smaller than the God that he is?

We have to ask – who is Jesus – that is he is the way, the truth and the life? The simplest answer (which also makes it the most complex answer) is that he is a physical representation of the eternal God (human and divine). We cannot forget Jesus is nothing new. He was from the beginning – and it is this reality that invites all of us to consider who God is. He not only is way, truth and life … he embodies it.