"Too Familiar" with Jesus?

God's timing is sometimes pretty frustrating. And sometimes its pretty amazing.
This morning's lesson in our High School class was from Matthew 11, where Jesus speaks of the cities that did not repent even though they saw Him do wondrous miracles and Matthew 13 where He speaks about a prophet having no honor in his hometown. After reading the two passages, I asked the teens the question, "Can we become TOO familiar with Jesus?" We likened it to knowing someone before they become famous. No matter what great things they do with their celebrity, we only see them as "just that kid" who used to do this and that.
Do we see Jesus as "just that guy" who used to do this and that? Do we see Him as just a character in a story that we read about when we were kids? In light of my previous post about getting bored with the facts...do we know all the "facts" about Jesus yet not really know Him at all?
Here's what we came up with in our class discussion - If we only know the facts about Jesus, then we are like the people in His hometown that only knew "about" Him and did not know His purpose and reason for being here. But if we only try to "know" Him without knowing about Him, then we are like the cities that saw all His miracles and considered Him a magician of sorts, yet did not listen to His teachings or let Him change their life.
You can't really come to "know" Jesus and have a relationship with Him if you're not going to learn the facts about Him. But if that's all you do, then you will never truly "know" Him as your Savior. You have to have both the facts and the applications.
So I guess we're keeping the boring classes! ;)