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Hello and welcome to giveattentiontoreading.com, where you can get your daily dose of the Great Physician’s medicine. Today’s reading is from Acts chapters 3 and 4. Today, I’d like to give attention to Acts 4:11-12. The text says:

This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone. And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

There it is. The bold and possibly arrogant claim of Christianity.

Jesus is not merely a savior in the midst of many saviors. His is not merely a name in the midst of many names. His way is not merely a way in the midst of many ways that lead to God. He is the only one. His is the only name. His is the only way that leads to God.

Ra won’t get you to God. Mithra won’t get you to God. Zeus won’t get you to God.  Buddha won’t get you to God. Krishna won’t get you to God. Confucius won’t get you to God. Mohammed won’t get you to God. Joseph Smith won’t get you to God. The Pope won’t get you to God. Oprah Winfrey won’t get you to God. I won’t even get you to God. Jesus Christ is the only way to God.

But this doesn’t fit too well in our post-modern, ecumenical, universalistic society. Today we are told that every way is right from a different perspective. What works for you may not work for me, and vice versa. We’re told that every way is merely a spoke in the wheel that leads to the hub of God.

BALDERDASH!!!

And I will admit, freely, that it is Christianity that throws a wrench in those works. Let’s think through this for a moment.

If every way is right, then Christianity is right. But as we read, Christianity claims that every other way is wrong. “No problem,” you say, “We’ll just say that Christianity is wrong.” But if Christianity is wrong, then you can’t say every way is right, and how many other ways might be wrong as well.

The fact is Christianity keeps us from making this weak and watered-down excuse for avoiding the challenges of the spiritual questions of life.

If Christianity is wrong, it is wrong. Say that it’s wrong. If it’s right, face up to it, follow it with all your might. But please do not be the weak and spiritually cowardly person who says, “I refuse to face the challenges of Christianity. I’m just going to pretend like it’s one way among many. And I get to pretend to have the high moral ground.”

If it’s right, then accept it and follow it. If it’s wrong, then treat it as a lie straight from the devil. Because you just can’t have it both ways. As for me, I’m going to follow Jesus. His is the only way. His is the only name. He is the only way to God and salvation.

I invite you to take the journey with me. Or, I invite you to say that I’m wrong. But please don’t patronize me by saying it is wrong for you but right for me.  Christianity simply won’t allow that.

Thanks again for checking out giveattentiontoreading.com. I’d love to know what you thought of today’s post and what else you got out of today’s  reading. Feel free to drop down to the comments section and join in the discussion. Don’t forget to come back tomorrow for another dose of the Great Physician’s medicine.

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P.S. Here is a version of my favorite song that teaches this same message.