Dave was suddenly more human.  I now had the slightest bit more hope that maybe one day I could lead like he leads (though to this day he’s still a lot better at it than I am!)  Second, most of my experience with Christians involved watching them get offended, angry, and/or frightened when they didn’t know something.  Instead, here was Dave modeling real humility! 

I remember the first time he said, “I don’t know.”

The setting was my very first Bible study, or at least the very first one I took seriously.  The group was small; maybe 4 or 5 of us.  The book was John.  The “he” I mentioned was Dave, the Bible study leader who was teaching us all how to know Jesus through the Scriptures.  I was just a baby Christian at the time, but I knew that Dave knew everything about Jesus.  Everything!

And that’s when it happened.

Somebody asked a question about the text.  I don’t remember exactly what it was.  Maybe it was why Jesus responded the way He did to His mother in John 2:3-5.  Or whether John 3:16-21 was spoken by Jesus or was John’s commentary.  Regardless, Dave’s answer astounded me.

“I don’t know.”

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