Jesus as the way, the truth and the life…

 Christianity is centered in who Jesus is (that’s what makes it a unique religion): The Way, The Truth, and The Life-as He called Himself. He claimed to contain all three. The way of life, the truth about life and the life force to live well—i.e. according to His Ways or Nature.

 I think each people group or culture tends to emphasize one of these three areas of God—the way, the truth, or the life. They tend to meet God as the principles of being or way (the Tao—more eastern); the truths about what is Real (the greek and roman mindset we inherited in the West); or the Energy of life force of living (perhaps body oriented cultures, even aboriginal and first nations peoples)—how to really live out your ethics or best ideals.

 So Jesus was claiming to be: the path of how to live, the truth about what life is, and the energy to live it correctly, empowering our ethics through the gift of His Own Holy Spirit, which are based on the law of Love—love God and love others.

 We, as followers in union with Him, claim that through union with His Nature and death to ourselves, we find true Life, even our true selves, and get better at loving Him and one another. Our ethics get empowered through His Spirit and formation of His Life in us. We start to grow in the way, the truth and the Life aspects of who He is.

We lose ourselves into Him to find the way, the truth and the life in Him. That’s Christianity in a nutshell—that Christ is the way, the truth and the life to live it!

 As we enter into Him, ever more deeply, we grow in all three! And can start to love into cultures which emphasize one of these aspects of His Identity! He is the way to live, the truths about what is, and the energy and life to align with what is real life! That’s what we believe. And that is the journey we are on, as true believers.