Goals

  1. Equip you and answer your questions.

  2. Help you be confindent in your faith.

  3. Remove Objections as you share the gospel

  4. Go make disciples

John 4:1-6

4 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 4 And he had to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour

  1. Samaria- Jews would go around it

    1. Where is the conflict- The root of Samaritan hate goes back to exile

    2. Those who remained intermarried with those brought over from sennacherib

    3. Nehemiah and Ezra did not allow them to help build the temple or accept their priesthood

    4. They made their own temple and priest in Mt. Gerazim 

    5. Mt. Gerizimthe mountain of blessing  and Mt Ebal cursing

    6. Mt Ebal had an altar made by moses

    7. 200 years prior during the jewish rebellion the Samaritans sided with the Seleucid empire against the Jews. after the victory the jews burned down the Sechem and the samaritan temple

    8. Around the birth of Jesus the samaritans vandalized the temple by throwing bones dead bodies all over it making any jew who cleaned it up unclean

    9. Sychar would have been near Sechem

John 4:7-15

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.) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 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.[b] 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.”

We have to win over people not win arguments

John 4:27-30

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 4:39-42

39 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” 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.” 

    1. Do you have any questions or thoughts from this lesson and what stood out to you most?

    2. What makes talking about Jesus intimidating for many Christians?

    3. The woman immediately raises objections. Why do you think people often respond to spiritual conversations with skepticism or defensiveness?

    4. How can learning someone's background help us address the real questions they're asking?

    5. Have you ever experienced Jesus meeting you in the middle of your own questions or doubts?

    6. How do we tangibly live this lesson out?


    1. How was your emotional and physical health this week?

    2. What is a serious stressor in your life?

    3. How has your personal time with God been this week?

    4. Would you like to share your personal temptations and how can we help you overcome them?

    5. Is there anything that we need to discuss that we have not already?

    6. How can we pray for each other this week?

    Pray for one another, invite each person to pray even if it is just a few sentences.