The Woman at the Well | Epic Stories – Week 1
When your story leads people to His story, it becomes an epic story.
The Gospel is the answer, and your story is the delivery vessel.
Your story is a bridge to His Story.
7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
– John 4:7-9 (ESV)
13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
– John 4:13-15 (ESV)
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
– John 4:16-19 (ESV)
“but God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. “
– Romans 5:8 (ESV)
27 Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” 28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” 30 They went out of the town and were coming to Him.
– John 4:27-30 (ESV)
My Faith Story:
– Before – What was my life like before Jesus
– How – How did I put my faith in Jesus
– Now – How is my life different today
39 Many Samaritans from that town believed in Him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”
– John 4:39 (ESV)
“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,”
– Romans 3:23 (ESV)
“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”
– Ephesians 3:23 (ESV)
The Gospel is the answer, and your story is the delivery vessel.
40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his word. 42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
– John 4:40-43 (ESV)