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We are getting back into our series of messages called Who’s Your One this morning.
How has it been going?
I hope you have been following the prayer guide that we gave out and are praying regularly for that one individual who you believe needs the hope that a relationship with Jesus can bring.
So far, we have seen that we are all called to follow Jesus and share him with others.
Our job is to be disciples of Jesus, learning who he is and what he teaches us to be and do.
As we grow, we are to help others become his disciples as well.
When we looked at this idea two weeks ago, we saw that we may have to go to great lengths to bring our friends to Jesus.
Last week, we took a break while we focused on the unique men God has called to serve our church family as deacons.
As we are picking back up on this idea that everyone here who knows Jesus is supposed to be telling other people about him, we are going to hit some of the objections we come up with.
If you and I are honest, when we think about trying to help our friends, family, or some stranger come to know Jesus, it scares us to death!
We can list off a number of excuses why we, of all people, aren’t up to the task.
However, we want to find the answer to this big question: Can Jesus really use me to help others find him?
In case you are planning on ignoring everything else I say from here, the answer is a resounding, “yes,” this morning.
If you are here today, and you know Jesus as your Savior and Lord, then he can use you.
In fact, he can even use people who don’t have a relationship with him, but that is a different topic for a different day.
The person who is going to teach us this lesson is an unlikely evangelist that God used to help many of her friends and neighbors come to know Jesus.
Turn over to , where we will read this woman’s incredible story.
It is a long one, so we may need to summarize or skip some sections of the passage.
Let’s get an idea of where we are in the story: Jesus has been doing a lot of ministry in Jerusalem, and it seems to be creating some conflict with the religious leaders there.
He is on his way back to the main area where he did his ministry, which is the land around the Sea of Galilee in the northern part of Israel.
To get there, he is going to go straight through a place many Jews would go way out of their way to avoid: a region called Samaria.
We will talk about why that is important, but for now, we are going to focus on the impact a conversation he had with a woman had on the village he passed through.
<Read 1-8> We are going to talk through what all is going to transpire, but for now, I want you to jump down with me to 28-30, 39.
So the woman from the well is the woman whose testimony brought many to faith in Christ.
Surely, then, she most have been some super person, right?
She had some great religious upbringing or something?
Not at all.
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