It’s not politically correct to say that in public, but it’s correct, nonetheless because Jesus said it, and He is the truth.
Not “a” truth, but “the” truth! Just as Jesus is not one of many ways, He is the one and only way.
Jesus always spoke only that which was the will of the Father, and since God cannot lie, whatever the Father says through Christ is truth. Even though Paul was an Apostle sent to the Gentiles (to us!), he still sought every opportunity to speak in the Jewish synagogues, and on one occasion, it was said that “some became stubborn and continued in unbelief, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them and took the disciples with him, reasoning daily in the hall of Tyrannus”(Acts 19:9), but regardless of where Paul preached the gospel, “there arose no little disturbance concerning the Way” (Acts 19:23), and Paul confesses, “I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering to prison both men and women”(Acts 22:4), so the Way refers to the gospel of Jesus Christ…the only way to the Father. Early in the church’s history, it was known as the Way, but why is it called “the Way?” It’s because witnesses “proclaim to you the way of salvation”(Acts 16:17). The early church suffered severe persecution, much at the hands of Saul, so Saul (later changed to Paul), sought “for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem” (Acts 9:2). Obviously, Jesus meant it is only through faith in Him that we have access to the Father in heaven, and “the life,” is eternal for all who believe (John 3:16). No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6), but what is the way? And what is the truth and the life Jesus spoke about? The early church was often called, “the way,” meaning, it was the way that Jesus taught, Who Himself said He was the way, the truth, and the life. Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. Today, it seems politically incorrect to say that Jesus Christ is the only way to the Father, so what do you tell others who don’t’ believe this? The Way
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