Know | Experience | Grow

We tend to approach our relationship with God either through knowing or experiencing.

Personality influences our tendencies—but we need to both know and experience God in order to grow in our relationship with Him.

Yup, that’s right: we need both.

We need to know Him and experience Him.

Knowledge is necessary—we need to learn about Him, we need to know Him, and we need to understand what the Bible says about Him.

Experience is necessary too—we need to sense, hear, feel, and respond to Him.

If we only approach God through knowledge, our relationship with Him will become academic, stinted, anemic, and weak.

I’ve been in church services before where the approach was only knowledge…

The thing is, God wasn’t needed there—they were doing just fine without Him.

If we only approach God through experience, our relationship with Him will become subjective and driven by our own whims.

I’ve also been in church services where the approach was only experiential…

They were weird, off-base, and dangerous (like a moving train that has left its tracks).

Growth in our relationship with God will require knowing Him and experiencing Him.

“May you have the power to understand (know)… his love. May you experience the love of Christ…” (Ephesians 3.18, 19 NLT)

Time to take your relationship with God to a whole notha level?

Know | Experience | Grow