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In the movie, Night at the Museum, one of the characters portrayed is a tour guide for the museum. She is working on her doctorate degree and writing her thesis paper on Sacajawea, the great Indian scout. The museum has a wax figurine of Sacajawea on display, and she sits for hours staring at it and wondering what it would have been like to actually know her. She had studied for years about Sacajawea. She had exhausted every book she could find for research and historical evidence to learn about this great historic person.

It is very evident in the movie that the tour guide would trade all of her research and knowledge for just five minutes alone with the real Sacajawea. She realizes the difference between knowing about someone and truly knowing someone. You probably could have asked her any question about Sacajawea, and she could have answered it. Facts, figures, knowledge and information, yet there is one thing she lacked, that she would’ve traded anything for—a relationship with her. Did you know there’s a comprehensible difference? Because in respect to God, I believe most people do not.

There are many people in church that know about God, they know of a god but they don’t know God. In this book, we are going to explore the vast differences between knowing about a god and knowing God himself. I want to challenge the hearts of the occasional church attendee and the religious-hearted by exposing the humanistic undertones dominating much of the church today. I want to help people understand they can truly know God in heaven.