The Apostles had the chance to do it first-hand with Christ in person, but the process is no less available and active for us with the spiritual Christ, our Present Teacher. This ongoing, daily experience of spiritual communion takes time and energy to develop. It is a process, with increasing sensitivity to God's voice, and is developed through the practice of the spiritual disciplines. It requires a balance of the Scripture, the faith community, and personal experience. Today's youth often chafe under the constraints of religion.
Religion is quite different from relationship.
It is static, developed in a specific cultural time period, and therefore forever held back by the conditions of that original time culture. However, spiritual relationship and dialogue with the living Christ can lead us to rediscover or reaffirm eternal Truths. And for this dialogue to have any meaning, it requires, with guidance from the Spirit of Christ, that we evaluate the specific culture where we live and apply those eternal Truths in contemporary and effective ways. For example, in the culture of our spiritual ancestors, clothing was a significant symbol of their place on the social ladder. Quakers rediscovered God's passion for equality.