Experiential versus Cognitive Knowledge

We'll rarely accept purely cognitive knowledge unless we have enough experiencial support behind it. It is especially tough when we have experiential knowledge against the cognitive knowledge.

For example, if someone tells us we are loved beyond our imaginations, unconditionally. If our experience continues to teaches us distrust, anger, sorrow, regret, guilt, and disloyalty from "friends" or family, we'll be shy to accept in reality what we affirm as a logical truth.

one of the reasons people are changed when they work internationally, whetehr for a week or for many years, is that they finally experience in practice what they have been cognitivelt taught about for years. They are intentional in all their movements. This dichotomy between experiential and cognitive/logical knowledge is never so great as in America. Consequently, this has drastic effects on our work and loves....especially our joy and hopes for healing.

Be chalenge this week and year to find those truths that you affirm verbally, as theoretically/cognitive true, BUT you know you lack the experiential knowledge..that Personal experience. Try to seek to engage such Truth as experience, not simply as information.

The world's greatest man once said both I speak truth and I am truth.