What is Truth?

This was the question which Alison Morgan asked herself- 'the crucial question of all time'. Jesus, she decided is the Truth-and the Way and the Life- but what does this mean? It is like when a pebble drops into a pond and the splash ripples out across the pond to the edges; God is at the centre and the circumference. So the truth starts with God and continues on. From the moment of impact a dialogue between you and God begins and never ends - and it is in words-
Jesus is the Word. When John wrote this in Greek he used the word Logos. For the Greek Philosophers who used it, Logos was a principle or force, a statement about the universe.' Jerome's translation into Latin was Verbum - and verb is a 'doing' word. God did, God does and God will do. Jesus the Word is truth. 'This truth is the driving force, the creative force which comes from God, through Christ, into the matter of the universe and into the spirit man. This truth is the ultimate principle of reality.'
So 'since the ascension of Jesus and the subsequent coming of the Holy Spirit, we all have the potential to speak out the word of God, and in so doing be part of his creative purposes.'

But 'often the power of God has not been noticeably present among Christians-
'Truth is the power of God in the universe, but is it the force that pulses through the church?'
Sadly she concludes that often it is not. We have lost touch with the dynamic power of the Gospel in the West.

'We stand, in the church, at the end of a long process of accommodation in which we have unconsciously sought to harmonise the gospel with the assumptions of our culture. a culture which in abandoning the quest for absolute truth has embraced a new set of values - rationalist, materialist, technological and reductionist. The effect has been that we have gradually turned the gospel from something subversive and life-changing to something tamed, packaged and institutionalised; from something expressed in words of power, to something conveyed, if it is conveyed at all, in words of information. The gospel has been squeezed out from under the platform of ur lives and become merely a picture on the wall, familiar but essentially unrelated to everyday reality. We must learn again to turn the word into a language, a living language that can speak into the assumptions of our culture just as Jesus spoke  into the assumptions of his, and in so doing and in so doing can do what he promised to do:
If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; and you will know the truth,and the truth will make you free.'   John 8;31-32

Taken from the introduction to 'THE WILD GOSPEL bringing truth to life' by Alison Morgan