Baseball, hot-dogs, and apple pie!

I hope you'll excuse me just this once if I present some questions designed to stimulate thought. Some, most, of these are rhetorical in nature, and I guarantee that you will have a different set of answers than the person sitting next to you in the pew at church. But that's OK. We don't all have to be the same!

1. How has God interacted with us in the past?

2. Can we infer that this is how God normally continues to interact with us?

3. Why did Jesus ask us to be like the little children?

4. What do we expect of ourselves and others, as Christians?

5. Can you have a relationship with someone if you are hiding from them, or if they are hiding themselves from you?

6. Is Christianity about knowledge that you believe? Or is it about having a relationship? Is it from a book, or experience?

7. How does this change our idea or practice of modern faith? Do we need to be doing anything differently?

My thoughts:
Question 1 can be taken two ways. Historical can mean Biblically, or personally.

Question 2 is actually asking if God changes. Does it make sense that He would?

Question 3: because being childlike is to be full of wonder, excitement, and openness.

Question 4: to have a 'personal' relationship with God, however that is expressed.

Question 5: No, a relationship is revealing one another. In my humble opinion, God continues to reveal himself to us, both from the written word and from life itself. Even if you say that revelation is ONLY from the written word and not from life, then it is a special, personal interaction with God that we derive from our experience of reading that word, and so is a personal revelatory experience.

Question 6: Let me illustrate by asking a similar question-- Is being American about 'baseball, hot-dogs, and apple pie', or about following all the laws, being a good citizen? Of course it is about both. But what a sad existence if you left out the 'baseball, hot-dogs, and apple pie' side of being an American citizen!
And just as a degree in art is inferior to actually having the vision of an artist or being an artist, getting an 'A+' on a theology test is completely inferior to having a personal relationship through God's ongoing revelation of himself to us.
Jesus said:

John 10:10 KJV "...I am come that they might have life, and that they might have [it] more abundantly."

We are to live!

The Bible says that Satan and his demons also have knowledge of God, probably more than is even recorded in the Bible, so obviously it is not knowledge of any sort that saves.

Jam 2:19 KJV "Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble."

Are we self-sufficient in our knowledge, or do we trust in the living God?

Question 7: Yeah- live! Whatever you do, dedicate it to God.