Kinds of Knowledge

Head Knowledge. This is the knowledge you learn in schools. With it you can answer questions and regurgitate facts, theories and arguments perfectly. But to me this knowledge is only good for debates and passing examinations. They are without life.

Heart Knowledge. This is knowledge that have been experienced. What was once theory is now real. You have accessed the fact or knowledge with your senses, and not merely as abstract mental entities. And you then understand what these things really meant. So now when you speak it can be discerned that it is tainted with realit, and stained with the dirt and dust from walking the word in life. Usually there is a certain humility in proclaiming the knowledge, and an awareness of knowing what works and what dont, and that the more you know the more you really dont know.

Living Knowledge. This is is the ultimate in knowledge, namely it becomes alive, living in you, and your life speaks this knowledge constantly, wordlessly and without speech. It becomes fully integrated with you and who you are. You breathe, think, walk and speak the knowledge without being conscious of it altogether. For example the word, loving your neighbour. Most of us have to struggle consciously against ourself to put that word to use, to practice it, to exercise it - ie we are at the heart knowledge stage only. To be integrated with the word, to attained living knowledge, means we now do it instinctively, unconsciously and unthinkingly. The word have become us and vice versa. For then indeed the word becomes flesh.

In the Beginning was the Word ...
the Word became flesh
and made his dwelling among us.

[John 1:1, 1:14]