Third Sunday of Lent

Lent

This third week of Lent, we immerse ourselves into Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well. Jesus breaks several conceived barriers to offer presence and new life to this woman. A woman, who becomes the first evangelist - announcing and inviting people to “come and see… could this be the Messiah?”

Scripture passage: John 4:1-42

This is Week 3 of our Lent Series

Respond Together:

• The Samaritan woman went back into the town - announcing the Messiah to people as the man who told me everything I ever did. Her past is precisely what tormented her and isolated her from others. The past that haunted her is now the channel by which she invites others to see Jesus. In what ways can our previous shame or wounds from the past become a channel to help others experience the living water available in Jesus?

• The Samaritan woman leaves her water jar announce this water “from above.” Jesus didn’t explicitly tell her to announce the news, but the wind of the Spirit is blowing and she is compelled to keep in step. In this season, where is the wind of the Spirit leading you to greater union and obedience to Christ? What inner transformation or outward act is being invited?

• The jar symbolizes a life she has been freed from. What aspects of your past / enslaved habits are you invited to leave behind in order to move into what is new?

Our songs together:

• O Come to the Altar - Elevation Worship

• Yours - Elevation Worship

• Gratitude - Maverick City

• Come Thou Fount