Our tendency is to assume that it is our ignorance, that it is what we do not know, which is the greatest obstacle between ourselves and God; however, it is probably more accurate to describe the greatest obstacle between ourselves and God as "the barrier that we build using what we think we know."

We convince ourselves that "Knowledge is power." However, most of what we think we know about God, Jesus, the Church, The Bible, ourselves, and others is mistaken.
So we are powerless.
Sadly,
the more right
we think we are, the more we think we know,
the more totally mistaken
we are.

To become acquainted with God, we have to forget, we have to unlearn most of what we think we know about God, about the nature of divinity, about Jesus, about the nature of reality,
about ourselves, about the nature of humanity, about The Bible, and about the Church (just to begin a list of required "unlearnings").

This forgetting, this unlearning, is vital to the meanings of "being born again."
We really need to
start all over with
a new assumptive base.

Unlearning has to do with leaving behind the baggage of what we think we know.

It is for us to undertake our discipleship spiritually, intellectually, and physically as described in Mark 6:8-9

These were his instructions: "Take nothing for the journey except a staff-- no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. Wear sandals but not an extra tunic. (NIV)

Does our knowledge, do our assumptions about the nature of reality preclude us from a hope of fulfilling "The Great Commission?" See Mark 16:15ff