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OUR MISSION: To guide those far from God into the new start found in Jesus Christ. Review Week’s One & Two The perennial problem of narrow-mindedness We are introduced to Jesus’ audience in Luke 15… as he explained his purpose and ministry Week Two Our Human Condition The Divine Solution The New Communion Week Three Inclusive Community Transformed Community Companion in Hope ‘companion’ • Latin word – literally “with bread” • com- with + pānis bread Luke 10:27 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ 2 Corinthians 10:5 “…and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” Philemon 6: “that the sharing of your faith may become effective by the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.” Transformed Community John 4:4-7 But He needed to go through Samaria. So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” The Sixth Hour Part Four John 4 (NKJV) Transformed Community vs. 8-11 “For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?” Antagonism Part Four John 4 (NKJV) Transformed Community vs.11“Where then do You get that living water?” vs. 12- 14 “Are You greater than our father Jacob, Part Four who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as John 4 (NKJV) well as his sons and his livestock?” Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” Proverbs 25:2 “It is the glory of God to conceal a thing but the honour of kings is to search out a matter” Transformed Community vs.19-26 The woman said to Him “I perceive that You are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will tell us all things.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.” Part Four John 4 (NKJV) Transformed Community Romans 12:2 “Do not conform yourselves to the standards of this world, but let God transform you inwardly by a complete change of your mind. Then you will be able to know the will of God - what is good and is pleasing to him and is perfect.” Part Four John 4 (NKJV) vs.29 “Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” James 5:16 “So then, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you will be healed. The prayer of a good person has a powerful effect.” Transformed Community Proverbs 25:2 “It is the glory of God to conceal a thing but the honour of kings is to search out a matter” Part Four John 4 (NKJV) vs.39-43 “And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.” So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. And many more believed because of His own word. Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world. Now after the two days He departed from there and went to Galilee” Transformed Community 1st commandment living / 3rd culture engagement Proverbs 27:17 “As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” Part Four John 4 (NKJV) Luke 10:27 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ OUR MISSION: To guide those far from God into the new start found in Jesus Christ.