The Way, the Truth and the Life

In light of my last post I came up with the following way to express the point I was making.

Jesus said he was "the way, the truth and the life."

For many Christians, where faith has been reduced to propositional assent ("I believe x to be true"), Jesus' claim moves through the following sequence:

Truth-Life-Way

That is, we have the following order:

1. Truth: I believe in Jesus
2. Life: Because of this belief I get to go to heaven
3. Way: And maybe, but this doesn't always happen, I'll begin to live more like Jesus
   

What I was arguing for in the last post was this kind of sequence. A reversal of the traditional order:

Way-Life-Truth

Things go in this order:

1. Way: I begin to follow the path of Jesus
2. Life: I discover that in losing my life I find it
3. Truth: And maybe, but this doesn't always happen, I'll begin to believe the claims about Jesus to be true