Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life” and promised that “the truth will set you free” — made in the image of God — we were made to live under the objective truth that comes from the Creators mouth — Jesus said, “humanity can’t live by bread alone, but every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”

Nobody simply dismisses this dynamic — everyone lives by truth claims.

And, in my estimation, the swing from postmodernism’s insistence that truth is socially constructed has not led to lesser conflict, but greater conflict — greater conflict where tribes launch “truth grenades” across social media platforms and words are seen as the place of social activism (often because it costs us nothing).

So as the followers of Jesus try to navigate these waters — the question for today is: “What does it mean for the followers of Jesus to speak the truth in love?”

Ephesians 4:15–16: Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. “

Zion Presbyterian Church — www.zioncolumbia.org