KNOWLEDGE
OF GOD: PERSONAL, INTIMATE; JESUS CHRIST: INTIMACY WITH

To get acquainted with God is one thing; but to go on to experience God in intensity and richness of acquaintance is something more. Paul said, “I want to know Him in that depth and rich intensity of experience.” As I have said many times, personality can’t be fully known with one encounter. You may meet some people you don’t particularly like at first. After you get to know them, you get to like them because you find the hidden potential in their personality that you didn’t know were [sic] there. Christ is capable of increasing intimacy of acquaintance.

If I have anything to say to the Church of Christ in general it is this: that our great weakness is that not only are we not going on to know Christ in rich intimacy of acquaintance but we’re not even talking about it. We don’t even hear about it. It doesn’t get into our magazines. It doesn’t get into our books. It doesn’t get onto our radios. It’s not found in our churches—this yearning, this longing to know Him in increasing measure.

Philippians 3:10

Success and the Christian, 14, 15.