Knowing God by J.I. Packer

Week 14: Review & Reflection — Looking Back Over Knowing God

Review your notes and underlined passages from the entire book. Key Scripture: Philippians 3:7–14.

Take this final week not to consume new material but to consolidate, evaluate, and respond — letting everything you have read move from your head to your hands.

Discussion Questions

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1.Packer's central claim is that there is a life-changing difference between knowing *about* God and actually *knowing* Him. Having read the whole book: do you believe that distinction more deeply now than you did at the start? What has shifted in your understanding?

2.Which single chapter or concept from *Knowing God* had the greatest impact on you, and why? What was it about that particular truth that landed with such force?

3.Packer covers many attributes of God — majesty, love, wrath, grace, wisdom, jealousy, and more. Which of these attributes do you think you had most underestimated or misunderstood before this study? How has your picture of God been corrected or enlarged?

4.Packer argues repeatedly that right doctrine should produce right living — humility, boldness, peace, compassion, endurance. Looking honestly at your life over the weeks of this study: where have you seen actual, concrete change in how you pray, relate to others, handle suffering, or make decisions?

5.Is there a truth from this book that you have understood intellectually but not yet integrated into your actual daily experience? What would it take — what habits, relationships, or disciplines — to close that gap?

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Closing Prayer

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Lord, we have spent weeks thinking about who You are. But thinking is not the same as knowing, and knowing is not the same as being transformed. Take everything we have read and learned and discussed, and let it do its slow, deep work — not merely informing our minds but reshaping our loves. May knowing You be the great ambition of our lives, the thing we give our best energy to, the thing we boast in above everything else. Let us not be the same people we were when we opened this book. For Jesus's sake, who is himself eternal life. Amen.

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