19 Bible Verses About the Journey, and Why the First Christians Were Called the Way

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…