Faith & Spirit Quote by Jerry B. Jenkins

Jenkins threads a needle that contemporary American Christianity often fumbles: holding an exclusivist theological claim without converting it into social warfare. The first sentence lands with evangelistic clarity. Framing Jesus as "God's attempt to reach man" flips the usual ladder-climbing spirituality; salvation is not humanity's self-improvement project but divine outreach. It's also savvy rhetoric. "In my opinion" softens the dogma just enough to sound conversational, even as the claim itself remains absolute: Jesus is "the way."

Then he pivots to the real target: the reflexive hostility that has come to cling to certainty. "It makes no sense" is doing heavy work here. He's not merely asking for tolerance; he's calling hatred irrational, an emotional glitch that contradicts the supposed premise of God's initiative. If God moves toward people, why would believers move away from them with contempt? The subtext is a critique of culture-war Christianity that treats disagreement as betrayal and pluralism as provocation.

As a novelist known for popular evangelical fiction, Jenkins is also writing with an audience in mind: people who want to remain doctrinally confident without being drafted into permanent outrage. The quote offers a model of identity that is firm but not brittle. It also hints at a strategic awareness: in a polarized public square, the credibility of faith is increasingly judged less by metaphysical claims than by the conduct those claims produce. Jenkins insists you can believe in one road to God and still refuse the default American vice of making enemies out of neighbors.