19 Bibelverse über die Reise und warum die ersten Christen „der Weg“ genannt wurden



  • The earliest name for the Christian movement was a road word: Acts 9:2 has Saul hunting “any who belonged to the Way”.
  • Abram is told to leave three named things for a land that is not named — the pattern nearly everyone in Scripture is asked to accept.
  • Psalm 119:105 promises less visibility than it is usually quoted for: an oil lamp lights the next step, not the next mile.
  • Isaiah 30:21 puts the guiding voice behind the traveller, which means direction usually arrives after we have started moving.
  • Psalm 23 has the dark valley on the right path rather than off it, and does not treat that as a contradiction.

Before anyone was called a Christian, the movement had a road name: the Way. That is what Luke calls it when Saul goes to Damascus hunting “any who belonged to the Way” (Acts 9:2), and Paul is still using the term at his trial years later. The first word the church had for itself was not a doctrine or an institution. It was a route, and the nineteen passages below read differently once we have that in mind — less…

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