Jesus Christ, the one who hung on a cross, is the only way.
It makes your claim of the exclusivity of Jesus come alive to a liberal when you are humble enough to admit that even you struggle, at times, to find Jesus.
Disruptive disagreement, wholehearted worship
Ultimately, I would suggest that we must crucify the idea that some of us are “conservative Christians” and others of us are “liberal Christians.” The Bible does not offer us language to describe ourselves as such. We are Christians—common Christians who weekly come together and break the body and drink the blood of the savior of the world. Nothing else outside of that defines us. And as I dream of the church of the 21st century, I can imagine a church brimming with both conservatives and liberals who weekly gather, in disruptive disagreement, to worship wholeheartedly the God of Creation who stands as Lord above all of our politics and differences.
I’m reminded of Jesus on the cross. When Jesus died, there was a sign above his head that read: “The King of the Jews.” It was written in three languages: Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek. The gospel is still like that. The gospel is only the gospel if it is a polyglot gospel. And if it isn’t for the whole world, then it isn’t for anybody.
And I’d think the whole world includes those pesky liberals.
