Before the followers of Jesus were known as Christians they called themselves “the Way.” One of those first followers, a man named Apollos had not been fully catechized. The friends of St. Paul, Priscilla and Aquila, took him aside and explained to him the Way of God more accurately. There is something attractive about thinking of the life of faith as “the way.” If you are on the way you’re not there yet, you are trying to make progress, you are incomplete. Faith is not a possession but a journey. Maybe we should stop thinking of those who have stopped going to Church as having “lost the faith” and instead think of them “on the way.” After all, didn’t Jesus say “I am the way!”
MAY232020
By Church Staff
