If you had to define what 'knowing' means what would you say?
I am of the belief that a primary problem with Western Christianity is that we have too much knowledge and not enough knowing.
Knowledge is head stuff while knowing is living stuff. Knowledge often leads to intellectual arrogance while knowing leads to empathy. Knowledge can come from books, while knowing comes through relationship.
Satan has knowledge of God, knowledge of Jesus, knowledge of the ressurrection but he doesn't having knowing of God. He doesn't have the intimacy of relationship that is knowing.
With all the resources at our hands we can easily have knowledge about God, about the bible, about how to do amazing things, but do we know Jesus in an intimate, personal, life changing way?
1 comment:
You are right on. Intimacy with God is what matters, not intellectual knowledge. I get to see the abuse of this priciple, and the proper balane, living at a Christian University.
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