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I was super impressed by how this presentation was put together...



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Knowledge vs. Connection

A few months ago I was headed to Bozeman Montana for a weekend of white water rafting with some friends. On the way out, all the way to wyoming already we called ahead to check on the conditions, but what we heard was anything but good news. It was snowing and raining, and the river was nearly impassable (later we read in the news about a group who died trying to take on the rafting there that weekend!!!)

We had lots of knowledge about what and where we were going to do, but the conditions changed and all of that knowledge would not have done us any good....

Except that I also had my iPhone, and my laptop... So in Wyoming at some random gas station which happened to have free wifi I put my iPhone and Computer to great us... My hard drive had zero info about rafting in it, but once it was connected to the internet, it quickly was able to find great information about rafting 8 hours south of Bozeman, in Colorado's Brown Canyon. What it failed to "know" it was quickly able to learn once it was connected...

Here is my point... while often the church is very busy teaching people about God, and filling up sunday school classes to teach people about God... really all of that knowledge is not as helpful as a real connection to God.

We need to know truth about God, but that truth can become empty facts if we miss the key point. God wants us to know him, not just about him.

In life, this makes all the difference... a real connection to God allows us to always be able to find, through our constant connection with him, all that we need for life and God-like-ness. On the other hands, facts, without connection, can often lead us to an empty God-Box which fails to measure up to the complexity and richness of life...

I think I am really guilty of focusing to much on the facts and missing the connection God is really inviting me to... how about you?