Objectives

When you complete this lesson, you should be able to do the following:

• Understand the foundational importance of knowing God.
• Understand the centrality of a personal encounter with Jesus Christ in spiritual transformation.
• Apply principles of knowing and loving God to your own spiritual life.

As you proceed through this lesson have the following question in mind.
What does it mean to be in the world, but not of the world? If practiced biblically, what might this teaching look like in the world and culture in which you live today?