1. True Worship John 4:21-24

2. Metrics O Atmosphere O Music O Welcome to visitors O Theme O Bulletin/program O Announcements O Response O Flow O Transitions O Language

3. He (Jesus) left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. (John 4:3-4)

4. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there... (5-6)

5. Jesus took an unusual path...

6. ... so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour. (6)

7. A woman from Samaria came to draw water... (7)

8. Background Time:noon Place:a well in Sychar, Samaria People:Jesus a Samaritan woman Setting:Meeting between Jesus and this woman

9. Lesson O This is divine appointment.

10. Lesson O This is divine appointment. O This is grace encounter.

11. Topics of Discussion O Living water: What is real need? O Lifestyle: What is real life/purpose?

12. Topics of Discussion O Living water: What is real need? O Lifestyle: What is real life/purpose? O Location: What is real worship?

13. “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” (19-20)

14. “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.” (21)

15. “You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.” (22)

16. “But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.” (23)

17. “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” (24)

18. For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. (John 17:8)

19. It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. (John 6:63)

20. Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. (Deuteronomy 6:4-5)

21. Jonathan Edwards “I should think myself in the way of my duty to raise the affections [emotions] of my hearers as high as possibly I can, provided that they are affected with nothing but truth.”

22. Lesson O This is divine appointment. O This is grace encounter. O This is life changing.