Now What? Truth

This week in our student group we continued in our Now What series talking about Truth.  Today truth can be anything to anyone; there is no absolute truth or so we are told.  For Christ-Followers there is absolute truth and it is Jesus.  We believe God’s word, the Bible, is truth and in John 14:6 Jesus says this about himself:  “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”  As Christ-Followers, this is black and white:  No one can get to heaven nor be saved apart form Jesus.  Many non-believers get upset when we state this and say we are being snobby or exclusive.  I feel we are not exclusive because we don’t deny anyone Jesus; we are excepting and loving of all people, but it is up to them whether they trust in Jesus.  We are extremely inclusive.  You don’t have to earn your way, work at keeping a bunch of rules, and then we will consider you like ever other religion says.  What an amazing God we serve! 

We also talked about Acts 5:33 – 42.  Gamaliel, a respected teacher stood up and told the religious leaders to be careful what they do to the apostles because if this Jesus movement is of man it will fail, but if it is of God it can’t be stopped.  It has been 2,000 plus years since then and there are 2.1 billion Christians, or 33% of the people in the world.  I think it is safe to say this is nothing one man apart from God could do. 

All these points and facts are great but what about those who don’t believe the bible as truth, or think I need more than a few facts.  I have met Jesus and experienced him in my life.  He is alive and he has transformed my life.  This is true and no one can deny this many have seen my transformation.  I can only attribute it to my savior Jesus and what he can do with a life ready and willing to be transformed by him.  An unbelieving world needs to see more transformed lives by Jesus and I feel then more people would believe if we step up allowing Jesus to transform us to be more like him and revolutionized the world with the only real truth: Jesus.