SCRIPTURES  

SCRIPTURES

SCRIPTURES (John 4:5-42)

- Jacob's well. 

-There are certain truths we cannot merely accept, but have to discover for ourselves and that Jesus is constantly asking people to face these truths for themselves. Dejong

-Jesus’ longest-recorded conversation with anyone is the one he has with the Samaritan woman  Craddock

-She is a Samaritan, he a Jew; between the two there was enormous historical enmity. At least four centuries before, the Jews of Samaria had intermarried with their captors, losing their religious and racial purity. They could not be forgiven for their impurity and were held in contempt by most Jews in Judea and Galilee. That's why the woman asks, "how can you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?"

-"There is more grace in God than sin in us."

-It's a story about being dry and dried up, parched and brittle and all used up by life. De Jong

-We should not ‘cast our pearls before swine’ by forcing an unwanted discussion. Rather, like Jesus, we should pursue spiritual conversation as deeply as the unbeliever wants to carry it.

-life can be too much and life can never be enough

-What John would have us see here is that there are certain truths we cannot merely accept, but have to discover for ourselves and that Jesus is constantly asking people to face these truths for themselves.

- In leaving behind our false gods, we also leave behind our false selves. 

-What if each of those marriages ended when the husband died. She would have buried five husbands.

-P, pastor; C, congregation

-Jesus talks longer to the woman at the well than he does to anyone else in all the Gospels--longer than he talks to any of his disciples, longer than he talks to any of his accusers, longer than he talks to any of his own family. She is the first person he reveals himself to in the Gospel of John. She is the first outsider to guess who he is and tell others. She is the first evangelist, John tells us, and her testimony brings many to faith. / The Messiah is the one who shows you who you are by showing you who he is / B.B.Taylor

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P: Like worships like God

C: But who can be like God?

P: What if God became like us?

C: Then we could be like God.

P: Then we could worship God.  Bob Bertra

-  Jesus confronts  racial prejudice and gender issues, religious issues (Samaritan). (wrong race, wrong gender, wrong religion)

-sermon   Jesus comes to ordinary people doing ordinary tasks, on an ordinary day. Jesus reached out in ordinary ways.

-One sows, another reaps. Spirit sows, Flesh reaps. Prophets sow, you reap. You sow, others reap.

SERMON SUGGESTION      TO CLOSE FOR COMFORT IS: GOD, JESUS AND THE KINGDOM    Lindy

-We say, stay, stay but he says, follow, follow.

-We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

-I am thirsty is what he said. (Jesus) but what he means is, "I am ready"

-Spirituality is becoming conscious of a relationship with God. We are already in that relationship but are we conscious of it?

-Man has cosmic companionship. Martin Luther King Jr.

-Nothing worth proving can be proven or disproven. Tennyson

-Oh , here in dust and dirt…oh here the lilies of his love appear. George Herbert

-What we can know about Jesus invites us to see "life in the Spirit" as a striking alternative to the way we typically live our lives. Marcus Borg

- Nicodemus and the Samaritan woman were literalist....could not sense the closeness of the spiritual.  Lindy

- The Kingdom of God is within you.  Luke 17:21

-Physically our church is for adults; spiritually it is a romper room

-Profound things are "hidden in plain sight" (gravity, spirit, love, God)

QUOTES

- Have church will travel.  (We are temples of God's spirit)

-The somebodies will be nobodies…John Crossan

-At Jewish weddings, rabbis often remind the couple that they are as earth and water to each other. Without earth, water flows without direction, while earth without water dries up and blows away. Together they make clay from which are made bricks, from which are made houses, which become homes.

- God is waiting at the well for each of us.

-Behold, I make all things new…            (The Prophet Isaiah)

- Sustenance

- "Well, well, well "

- Repentance is not for sinners only.  

-There are times in life when we feel that our roots just don't reach the water. We are left high and dry Jeffrey Smith

-We do not need to search for him. He is the shepherd; we are the sheep. We need to let him find us. Fosdick

-To this day, the Samaritan woman is honored in many cultures. In southern Mexico, La Samaritana is remembered on the fourth Friday in Lent, when water flavored with chilacoyota, tamarindo, jamaice and horchata is given to commemorate her gift of water to Jesus. The Orthodox know her as St. Photini, or Svetlana in Russian. her name means "equal to the apostles," and she is honored as apostle and martyr oil the Feast of the Samaritan Woman.  from sermon by Patricia Farris  Unlikely Messenger

- On another day, also about noon, Jesus will face death and again confess his thirst. Patricia Farris

- Let's not forget, tears are another form of water.

- Jesus will catch you if you don’t watch out. Jan karon..

- Praised be my Lord for our sister water, who is very serviceable unto us and humble and precious and clean.   St. Francis of Assisi.

-But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream  Amos 5:34

-Not "What will make our church grow ?"  but, "What is keeping our church from growing?"  Stoffregen

- Quench thirst!

- Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink. Coleridge   The rime of the Ancient Mariner

- I've got peace like a river.  African American spiritual

-  Only one  who loves you  can know you as you are and not as you pretend to be. Only one who love you knows your deepest desires. Only one who loves you can look at your past with out blinking. 

-"Mystical moxie"

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ILLUSTRATIONS

1.  Willimon tells about his grandmother who was the first female Methodist preacher in S.C.  Someone said to her after he ordination,"I think it's remarkable that the S.C. Methodists ordained a woman and were among the first to do it."  "It is remarkable, and it only took them 1,956 years to do it."  (said the ordained woman)

2 There are two and a half quarts of water in my blood. There are fifteen quarts of water in the extra plasma in my body. There are thirty quarts of water in the cells of my body, allowing all those little cells to grow. It always amazes me that (your weight) pounds of water are standing before you today at this moment. Truly, I am living water.

3. During the tenure of the great orator Henry Ward Beecher, a visiting minister (Beecher's brother) once substituted for the popular pastor. A large audience had already assembled to hear Beecher, and when the substitute pastor stepped into the pulpit, several disappointed listeners began to move toward the exits. That's when the minister stood and said loudly, "All who have come here today to worship Henry Ward Beecher may now withdraw from the church. All who have come to worship God keep your seats!"

4.Rabbis forbade rabbis to greet any woman in public, even a wife or a sister. There were, in those days, Pharisees who shut their eyes when they saw any woman on the street. With their eyes shut, they walked into so many walls and tripped over so many cracks in the street that they were called the "bruised and bleeding Pharisees." They were the same ones who prayed:

-Remember putting your face above a headless frame painted to represent a muscle man, a clown, or even a bathing beauty? Many of us have had our pictures taken this way, and the photos are humorous because the head doesn't fit the body. If we could picture Christ as the head of our local body of believers, would the world laugh at the misfit? Or would they stand in awe of a human body so closely related to a divine head?  Dan Bernard

HUMOR 

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