What is truth?

 Pilate asked him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went out to the Jews again and told them, “I find no case against him. Jn 18:38 NRSV

Christians have always argued about different understandings of the truth, but in the eyes of the outside world, this hardly looks comprehensible. Postmodern man asks today, as Pilate asked then: ``Truth, what is it?

In Europe, for more than a generation, people have been talking about ``your truth`` and ``my truth,`` but when people talk like this, they are no longer thinking of The Truth, but of each person’s subjective mindset or world view.

If you no longer understand what truth means, it can be a problem to communicate the truth of the Bible.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. Jn 14:6 NRSV

But what is truth? People ask in the 21st century.

Some Christians want to give up the battle for truth and focus only on love. The love of God can reach hungry hearts.

But the love of God is not just kindness and helpfulness.
In the Bible, we read: ``God is love.

So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them. 1 Jn 4:16 NRSV

God is love, but not only loving. God is loving and also all-powerful.
Jesus loved people and healed the sick.

God's love is all-powerful. God's love is by no means just a theological statement of faith.
God loves and God acts. God intervenes to heal the sick, to encourage those in despair and to save lost people.

God can and will reveal Himself if we are willing not only to proclaim His truth but also to release His miracle-working power.

The truth is that God still acts supernaturally and intervenes in human lives as He did in Bible times.

When people see and experience this for themselves, many turn back and believe in the truth they have seen and experienced.

There is a multicultural church in Düsseldorf where the African pastor firmly believes in the truth of God's Word. But his faith does not only consist of theological convictions. He puts the word into practice.

In the New Testament, Jesus healed many sick people.

That evening they brought to him many who were possessed with demons; and he cast out the spirits with a word, and cured all who were sick.
 
This was to fulfil what had been spoken through the prophet Isaiah, “He took our infirmities and bore our diseases.” Mt 8:16–17 NRSV

We see many miraculous healings in this church.

What is the result? Hundreds of Muslims are converting to Jesus.

What is the truth?

There is only one God, the almighty Creator and the Father of Jesus Christ.

There is no other God. There is no other eternal reality.

There is no other way to God. We must experience and release the power and love of God.

Otherwise most of the people around us will be lost.