WOF 395: Knowing Jesus Personally
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
4.9 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Friends, Christians often speak of “having a personal relationship with Christ” or “knowing Jesus personally,” but what does this actually mean? Is it possible? How do we go beyond knowing about Christ to truly knowing him? That’s what Brandon Vogt and I discuss on today’s “Word on Fire Show.”
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| 0:00.0 | Christianity seems to me is unique in this claim, but the ordinary goal is to become God's friend. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vaat, the host and the Senior Publishing Director at Word on Fire. |
| 0:23.0 | Christians often speak about having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ or knowing Jesus personally, |
| 0:30.0 | but what does this actually mean? Is it possible? How do we go beyond just knowing about Jesus to knowing Him? |
| 0:37.0 | That's what we're talking about today and we're doing so with Bishop Robert Barron, who joins us from our new Rochester studio. |
| 0:44.0 | Bishop, good to be with you. |
| 0:47.0 | Hey Brandon, it's gorgeous here in Rochester. We're filming now early summer. It's just amazing. |
| 0:52.0 | It seems like yesterday we were under mounds of snow and ice and now it's like just gorgeous summer weather. |
| 0:58.0 | The trees are blossoming, the birds are singing, so it's lovely. I just walked right past the Mayo Clinic coming over to our studio today. |
| 1:06.0 | Speaking of the changes of seasons there, you are just wrapping up a great liturgical season, liturgical period, which is confirmation season for you. |
| 1:14.0 | How did that go? Was your first one as an ordinary, correct? |
| 1:17.0 | As an ordinary. I confirmed 15,000 kids in California, so I've kind of got that ritual down. |
| 1:24.0 | But it was my first time in this time of season. I did most of the driving myself, so I just went all over the place. |
| 1:30.0 | I love it. It's a little long and by the end most pushes are a little bit more and out. |
| 1:35.0 | In fact, yesterday I just dropped all my vestments off at the dry cleaner because they're all wrinkly and full of oil. |
| 1:41.0 | I love confirmation season. It's just an uplifting thing and it's such a great day for these kids. |
| 1:51.0 | It's the in breaking of the Holy Spirit. What's more important than that? |
| 1:56.0 | I was thinking to you this past week and our son, Isaiah, or old, his son was just confirmed. |
| 2:00.0 | Before the confirmation mass, they do pictures with the bishop and the priest. |
| 2:05.0 | And poor bishop has to stand up there for almost an hour with like a hundred kids smiling. |
| 2:10.0 | I remember you saying that your job becomes like physically tired after hours and hours of that. |
| 2:16.0 | It's a bit easier here. There are fewer kids at the confirmation. |
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