Why Knowledge Alone Can't Transform a Person's Life

Are you living out what the Bible says for you or are you living out what others expect of you?

In this episode, Bill and Scott challenge the assumption that spiritual or personal growth comes from knowledge alone. They explore how trust, not compliance, leads to lasting transformation and authentic maturity.

Topics Bill Thrall and Scott Boyd discuss in this episode:

(03:11) How knowing the right answers does not equate to making right choices in life.

(04:19) The difference between teaching knowledge and teaching trust in truth.

(06:33) How acting on trusted truth leads to transformation and changed choices.

(10:06) How compliance often produces judgment and a lack of love.

(12:33) The idea that people adapt themselves to the expectations placed upon them.

(14:48) How children raised to meet expectations often grow up compliant but unprepared.

(22:44) Warnings against turning trust into rigid patterns instead of teaching principles of truth.

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