The Scandal of Particularity: Is Jesus Really the Only Way to Heaven?

John 14:6 “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” The Scandal of Particularity: Is Jesus Really the Only Way to Heaven? The Fifth Sunday of Easter (Year A) In a world that often bristles at the Christian claim that Jesus is the only way to God—a tension scholars have called the “Scandal of Particularity”—many believers find themselves quietly on the defensive. Those ideas have moved from academic circles into everyday conversations, leaving Christians in workplaces and social settings wary of being labeled ignorant, intolerant, or worse. We may try to brush it off, but the weight of those accusations lingers. In this sermon on John 14:6, I invite you to explore not only the truth of Jesus’ words, but also how we can hold to them with both conviction and grace in a skeptical world.