so how can we as Christians - or "little Christs" - lead others to Jesus without establishing and cultivating a meaningful relationship with others? the relationship sets the soil for knowledge to enrich and grow understanding and through it the true teaching and reflection of the kingdom of God is understood. We must show and not explain God's qualities for someone to truly "get it".
First you must pierce the heart if you hope to reach the brain. And its ordered precisely so for a reason.
So who penetrates the heart - friend or teacher? Whose words carry the greater power? When you put the teacher hat on, the dynamic of your interpersonal relationships also changes; your relationship with others becomes centered on knowledge rather than intimacy. How easy is it to be intimate with a teacher? In the same way, for others to see Christ in us, we must become an experiential reflection of his heart and character.
One may gain an intrinsic insight into love through discussion, but it is deeply understood when it is experienced. For this reason, loving is central to the two greatest commandments because it becomes the conduit by which we enjoy and connect to the father's heart while also connecting others to Him.
Before we knew Him, we called Jesus teacher, but He called us beloved! Now we understand that He was always the lover of our soul - our bridegroom.
Relationship is central to the love that surpasses all knowledge. The kingdom is a fellowship, rather than a classroom understood relationally, not cognitively.
** [most Christian logic bears no sense to nonbelievers on all ends of the intellectual spectrum anyways since its deeper and logical revelations are incumbent upon an initial and leap of faith which is by nature, irrational and not easy to buy into.]
