Knowledge is Not the Same as Knowing
Having knowledge of something is very different from knowing something. Same with people. You may know of someone, but you may not really know them. Just because you may know of Tom Cruise it does not mean that you know him-know him, personally. It is not until you have a conversation and open the doors to a personal relationship with someone do you really truly begin to get to know someone. So, think of some of the people that you say you know. Do you really know them? Or do you just know a collection of facts about them? To know someone is to have a personal relationship with them. In the Acts of the Apostles, a Jewish man named Apollos was teaching people about Jesus but all he knew was the “baptism of John.” Then we are told two people who contemporaries of St. Paul, Priscilla and Aquila, took him aside and taught him more about Jesus. In my mind I saw this as them sharing with Apollos what they’ve learned about Jesus th...