The goal of our faith is ultimately to be like Christ. The Early Church Fathers summed it up best when they said that the Son of God became the Son of Man so that the sons of men might become sons of God. Paul writes in his letter to the Ephesians that the goal of the ministerial offices is to equip and build up the church, “until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ” (Eph. 4:13). This knowledge isn’t simply head knowledge, though that plays a part in our ability to know things. Rather, the knowledge Paul is referring to is experiential knowledge: walking daily with the Lord, spending time with Him in prayer and in His Word, and being an active member of His Body, the Church. As the saying goes, “You are the company you keep,” the more time we’re with the Lord, the more His life is expressed through ours, and what a world it would be if this were true for all of us today!