What does it mean to know God? Is it just knowing things about Him? Can I know God just by studying the Bible? At Living Christian Books, you'll find authors who believed in knowing God in a deeper way than doctrine, theology and the recitation of Scripture. Jeanne Guyon, Brother Lawrence, Manfred Haller and Martha Kilpatrick, among many others, wrote books that reveal a path to knowing God by way of experiencing His manifest presence. We can pursue knowledge of God or we can pursue God Himself and come to know Him in a real and ever deepening relationship. God created us for love and companionship. Here are books that lead us into the deeper way of knowing God.
Manfred Haller's The Mystery of God: Christ All and in All sets out to remove misinformation about Jesus, our Immanuel, 'God With Us.' He would remove any obstacle to the truth of who Christ is and how intimately we are called to know Him. Madame Guyon wrote Experiencing the Depths of Jesus Christ and was imprisoned for daring to claim, as did the Apostle Paul, true union with God and a knowing of Him that neither asked nor required permission of the organized church. And Brother Lawrence, a crippled monk who worked in the monastery kitchens, drew visitors from high and low because he was known as a man who knew God like no other. His life testimony endures hundreds of years later because he experienced the very presence of God and the effect of that knowing staggered all who met him.
Be sure to also pick up a copy of Adoration by Martha Kilpatrick and explore the lives of Martha and Mary of Bethany as you've never seen them before! One sister purposed to know God through relationship by adoring Him. For this, Jesus rewarded her as no other by commanding that whenever the Gospel is told, the story of her anointing of Him and adoring worship must also be proclaimed. Will you too choose a deeper way of knowing God?