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Welcome
Welcome to Ypsilanti Friends Church today, and thanks so much for spending part of your weekend with us.
My name is Jack...
If you’re new, we want you to feel at home.
There are several things coming up for you and your family at YFC and we want to take a few minutes to share about them.
AUG 8 RALLY DAY WITH BIG BLAST
EFCER FALL RETREATS
MEN Sept 13-15
Women Oct 11-13
WOW GATHERING
Video
Roxane
Make sure to stay connected
for spending part of your weekend with us.
[SLIDE 1] Introduction
Everyone, everywhere wrestles with what drives us
Accomplishment, Success
Learning
Being productive, solving problems
Feeling connected to someone or others
FOMO on a moment, experience, opportunity
Missing something
Other words for drive are longing, thirst...
We’re all thirsty
Longings: we’re thirsty.
We all long for what God designed us to enjoy: lasting, tension free relationships filled with deep, loving acceptance and with opportunities to make a difference to someone else.
be both autonomous and happily interdependent with others.
Daniel Pink, Drive
Autonomy
Purpose/meaning/significance
Malnourished
Dehydrated
How it Impacts Society
Self-absorbed people running around
Conflict - when one person’s goals compete with another’s
How it Impacts You and Me (Consequences)
Reach and swing
Church is the place people bring their longings, wounds, hopes, dreams to work them out, find solutions, relationships that satisfy.
Demanding
Find meaning in simply a feeling of belonging
Find meaning/significance in discovering and fulfilling purpose through a ministry
How We Try to Satisfy the Thirst/Hunger
Reach for it/take short cuts to get it: try to get people to love us.
If I do what you say/what you expect, will you be pleased with me?
Will you love me?
God?
Will you?
Give up?
Push, everything is urgent - not the case
Accomplishment
Look for affirmation from others based on what we do
Settle, be satisfied in identifying as a member and expecting people to serve me
We were made for infinite love from Someone who needs nothing in return and for eternal impact through Someone whose purposes are the most important.
Only God can supply what my soul most deeply desires.
Maybe do nothing…live with the longing.
What of those Efforts is On the Right Track But Not Quite There?
We long for life giving relationships and a high level of impact
Faith community is the place to go looking for the way to them
But no human being, no ministry, no success can ever provide.
We were made for infinite love from Someone who needs nothing in return and for eternal impact through Someone whose purposes are the most important.
Only God can supply what my soul most deeply desires.
What Jesus Has to Say
Having picked the most direct and fastest route from Jerusalem to Galilee, it took Jesus through Samaria.
Total of a three day trip.
40 mile to Samaria that took a day and a half.
Arrived at the well around noon of travel day 2.
Sat down to rest.
Hottest part of the day.
Disciples went to buy food.
A woman came to draw water.
Jesus starts a conversation.
What’s odd about this
6 - 40 miles journey.
Would take a day and a half.
He got to the well the second day of the trip about noon tired so he sat down to rest.
Jesus’ disciples bought food in a Samaritan town.
Jews and Samaritans didn’t interact with each other.
For Jews, if you didn’t like another Jew you called them a Samaritan.
Jews and Samaritans didn’t interact with each other.
For Jews, if you didn’t like another Jew you called them a Samaritan.
Risky for them.
Not always welcome.
Women came morning or evening to draw water
She came alone
Avoiding contact with other women; felt a sense of shame…more on that later
Normally, women came to draw water in the morning or evening, the cooler parts of the day (; ).
It is also strange that she came alone.
Both these things suggest the woman felt a sense of shame and was avoiding contact with other women.
Men did not start conversations with women in public
it was strange for a man to initiate conversation with a woman in public, something noted by Jesus’ disciples later (27).
The evangelist, either to offer some explanation as to why he asked her for a drink, or simply to set the scene for the private exchange between Jesus and the woman, adds, His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.
It is at first surprising that the disciples, being Jews, would go to buy food in a Samaritan town, especially in the light of the evangelist’s comment in 4:9 (‘Jews do not associate with Samaritans’).
However, a distinction was made by even the strictest Jews between accepting food given by those considered unclean and buying it from them—the latter being considered appropriate (1QS 5:14–20).
Nevertheless, it was a risky thing for the disciples to enter a Samaritan town, as Samaritans did not always welcome Jewish pilgrims travelling through their territory ().
Nevertheless, it was a risky thing for the disciples to enter a Samaritan town, as Samaritans did not always welcome Jewish pilgrims travelling through their territory ().
[SLIDE 2]You’re Thirsty
Awkward social moment: Give me a drink.
Why are you talking to me?
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