{"id":4672,"date":"2022-01-19T03:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T03:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4672"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:13","slug":"multiple-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4672","title":{"rendered":"MULTIPLE CHOICE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">When Paul says (in Philippians 3:8) &#8220;I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things&#8221;, his idea of &#8220;knowing&#8221; Jesus is most similar to\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">A) The way we might &#8220;know&#8221; a movie star &#8211; We are familiar with her work from a distance.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">B) The way we might &#8220;know&#8221; a Starbucks barista &#8211; We know his name, greet him daily, and wish him well.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">C) The way we might &#8220;know&#8221; an old high school friend on Facebook &#8211; We see her updates now and then and are willing to pray for her when she specifically asks for it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">D) The way we &#8220;know&#8221; our best friends\/spouses\/children &#8211; We love them, we arrange our schedules to spend time with them, we respect their viewpoint, and we delight in serving their desires whenever possible.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">What if it is a trick question? What if Paul &#8220;knew&#8221; Jesus in a way even deeper and more intimate than we experience with Option D, at its best?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">What if that way of &#8220;knowing&#8221; Jesus is available to us?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">Is it?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Paul says (in Philippians 3:8) &#8220;I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things&#8221;, his idea of &#8220;knowing&#8221; Jesus is most similar to\u00a0 A) The way we might &#8220;know&#8221; a movie star &#8211; We are familiar with her work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4673,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions\/4673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}