One Way (Acts 4:12)

Acts 4:12 “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

John 14:6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” NIV

Along with John 14:6, Acts 4:12 should be memorized by every believer, since it makes it crystal clear that Jesus is the only ticket to heaven.

When I was a kid growing up in the Bible belt I remember being exposed to some eastern thinking in grade school. The ideas of many roads leading to heaven and reincarnation were as intuitively off as the idea that you could carve your own idol and then bow down and worship it. Yet in the last 40 years many things have changed. Through news and entertainment alike, media has exposed us to a whole new world which is largely made up and controlled by the nonreligious and certainly non-Christian. This new world has some positive elements, but it also has an incredible ability to sell and persuade. Now, 40 years later, it is common for people to hold to the ideas of many roads leading to heaven. Even many Christians believe, and quite strongly so, that Jesus cannot possibly be the only way.

But Jesus makes it quite clear. He is the only way. There is no other.