" Knowing God not only points to the door, it provides the key, helps us open it and prepares us for the One we shall discover waiting for us on the other side. There isn’t a song I’ve written that hasn’t been impacted by the point of view in this book. But truly good books shape the way we think. It dawned on me that bad books try to tell us what to think, while good books help us to think. Then I realized that through his book Packer had made them mine. I was discipled by that book before I knew what discipleship was! As I reread it recently, I was embarrassed by all the ideas I kept coming upon that I thought were mine. "I first read the book in 1977 in what was then the ninth American printing. He has discovered and shares with the reader the secret that knowing God’s Word is the most direct route to knowing God." It is my hope that this edition will introduce many new readers to the spiritual depth, the wisdom, and the abiding faith of this great scholar. "If any work of Christian literature deserves the title of ‘contemporary classic,’ I believe that J. I. Packer’s Knowing God qualifies for that distinction. Packer’s volume says it simply, says it best." Others may have followed with books about desiring, loving, serving or seeking God, but Dr. Packer has written could fill shelves, but he is still known best for his fine work in Knowing God.
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