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 ====== Which Way to Take? ... ======
-Tuesday, June 12, 2018.
+Tuesday, June 12, 2018. Often we ask ourselves: what should we do? We all need to make decisions,
+we decide how to approach some task, how to solve some problem. But we also decide about basic
+things in our life, what education to pursue, for example.
+Of course, there are more general questions. What to believe? How to approach life? What is my
+main goal? Who am I? What to feel? What to think? How to fill my free time?
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-** The world as it is **
+** Thomas' Questions **
+The bible is full of the general questions. They are taken up, and they are discussed. It might
+be controversial, what to do, what to believe, what to think! Humans might come to different conclusions.
+Let us look into one discussion, which Jesus had with his disciples, here led by Thomas. Thomas is
+one of those who really wants to know. He wants clarity and certainty. Here, he asks Jesus about the
+way to choose:
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 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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+Thomas asks for the way, and Jesus tells him that HE is the way. This is a very famous bible verse.
+It is very well known. And yet, do we understand it? What is our understanding? What is yours? Let us
+stay there for a moment: in what sense is Jesus the way?
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-** My Faith ...**
+** The Way ...**
+When you say "the journey is the reward", that points to a process which is of value by itself. But is it
+that what Jesus says when he tells Thomas that he himself is the way?
+Jesus points to the fact that he is God himself, that he is the son of God, who became human and lived
+with us. He points to his death and resurrection, in which we find the grace and mercy of God for our life.
+He is the way means that he is the path through which we come to God.
+But there is more in this. He is not only the path. In him we get to know God. He is the way, the truth and
+the life. By putting this into these three terms, Jesus interprets his own statement right away. He is the
+path in the sense that he is the goal already.
+The combination of path and life points to this: in him there is life. When we "walk in him", we walk with
+God and in God. We have reached the goal to be with God on our journey of life.
+Jesus as a person plays a particular central role for all life. That is what he has claimed 2000 years ago,
+and since then people have discovered what Jesus can be for them. Come and join the club, come and see!
 (Roland Potthast)
 [[http://www.jesusnetwork.eu/en/topics_collection_ix|... further texts]]
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