Scripture: "Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent" (John 17:3).

> 1. On a scale of 1 to 10, how well do you know God? 1 (don’t) .... 10 (best friends)

> 2. Do you know God as your Lord and Savior? If not, why not? If so, how did that relationship with him come to be?

> 3. What in creation (nature) speaks to you in a particular way of God?

> 4. What in the Bible (“special revelation”) speaks to you in a particular way of God? (Maybe a favorite Bible verse?)

> 5. Share your response to this quote by J.I. Packer (Knowing God): *“What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it—the fact that he knows me...There is tremendous relief in knowing that his love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench his determination to bless me.”*