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Sermon: Knowing God

Knowing God


John 17:3


What does it mean to be a Christian? It means above all else a relationship with God. Life
is about relationships. Without relationships - family, friends, colleagues and so on life
would be meaningless. Relationships are the stuff of life.
We know this because when the most important relationships of life break down we are
deeply unhappy. A broken romance or worse a broken marriage or a bereavement brings
depression sometimes despair.
In fact the root cause of human unhappiness is because the most fundamental relationship
of all has broken down - our relationship with God. However good our other relationships
in life may be they never make up for a broken relationship with our Creator - with God.
That is why as I say the Christian life is at heart about a relationship with God. That is
what John says


Read John 17:3


The problem even for Christians is that they lose sight of this at times. We often substitute
things that are at the edge of the faith for that which is at the centre. We see our
Christianity in terms of churchgoing or rule-keeping or activities instead of seeing it as
cultivating a personal relationship with God. And the word cultivating is important
because a relationship, any relationship in life has to be worked at - it doesn’t just happen -
and our relationship with God is no different.
Things that go wrong in our Christian life whatever they may be always start here - failing
to work at our relationship with God.
How then do we develop this relationship? That’s what I want to remind us of today.


Look at slide Two


‘To ‘Know God’ means to turn all we know about God, into meditation before God, prayer
and praise directed towards God and devoted obedience to God.’
I want to look simply at each aspect of the definition.

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Hi there - I am a member of Greenview and have been for over 20 years. For a number of these years I functioned as an elder, however, indifferent health forced me to take more of a back seat. I see this as an opportunity to do a little writing, often focussing on issues that are a matter of evangelical debate today. Naturally the views expressed are my own and may not reflect the views of the elders or church at large, though differences are likely to be in the detail and not the substance.

These articles and sermons were written partly to clarify my own thoughts and partly with the intention of provoking thought in others who may read them. If you read one I hope you find it stimulating. Please feel free to give me feedback or discuss my articles in the forums.

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