The Way in a Manger, Part 3 - "The Way of Love"
Your Move with Andy Stanley Podcast
Andy Stanley
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The first Christmas was unimaginable—and it changed everything. Imagine a world where Christians live and love today the way Jesus did back then. The way Jesus lived changed the world once and could change it again.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Andy here. Welcome to Your Move, where we help you make better decisions and live with fewer regrets. |
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| 0:35.1 | Today we're wrapping up our series, The Way in a Manger. As we said for the last couple of times, |
| 0:41.8 | we've been together. One of Jesus' most controversial and offensive statements is also one of |
| 0:47.1 | his most quoted statements. Even if you're not a church person, you have heard this before. |
| 0:51.7 | And if you've heard this before, perhaps it was offensive to you, and that's understandable. |
| 0:56.0 | At one point in Jesus' ministry, he made this audacious claim. |
| 0:59.9 | I mean, who would even say this? |
| 1:01.7 | He said, I, speaking of himself, he said, I am the way and the truth and the life, and nobody, |
| 1:09.0 | no one of any generation, no one comes to the Father, speaking of God, |
| 1:13.1 | the Father, no one comes to the Father except through me. Who would say such a thing? Of course, |
| 1:19.1 | there are many things that Jesus said that when you read them, you're like, who would say |
| 1:22.3 | such a thing? In fact, it's one of the reasons that his followers eventually abandoned him. |
| 1:26.2 | It was just, it was just too much. It wasn't that what Jesus taught was offensive. It was what he said about himself that was so offensive. And ultimately, God him crucified. And this is one of those statements. And it is on the surface offensive. I am the way, the truth in the life. No one comes to the Father through me. But the problem is, while this statement is usually interpreted |
| 1:44.6 | as an attempt to exclude people, |
| 1:47.6 | when you follow Jesus through the Gospels, |
| 1:49.6 | clearly that was not his intent. |
| 1:52.5 | But as we discovered last time, |
| 1:54.6 | there is something else embedded in this claim. |
| 1:57.6 | There is something else baked into the idea of him being the way, that Jesus came to |
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