The message of Jesus travels best along the current of changed lives. Louie Giglio continues the collection, Everybody, with a challenge for every believer… how are you using your story of grace and forgiveness to lead others to an encounter with the same Jesus who saved you?
Scripture References
43.Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles.
46.Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47.praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
2.although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3.So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.4.Now he had to go through Samaria. 5.So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6.Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.7.When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8.(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)9.The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.4:9 Or do not use dishes Samaritans have used)10.Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”11.“Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12.Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”13.Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
22.You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23.Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24.God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”25.The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”26.Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”27.Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”28.Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29.“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” 30.They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
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“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35.Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36.Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37.Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. 38.I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”39.Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” 40.So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41.And because of his words many more became believers.42.They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”
About the Contributor
Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute. View more from the Contributor.