March 12, 2023

 Welcome from Brown Chapel/Avant & Mt. Pleasant

Prayer: Rev. Pelton

Scripture: John 4:1-15 - Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman

4 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— 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.[a])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, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

Subject: Do You Know the Gift of God?! 

• There are so many types of water: salt water, hard water, muddy water, mineral water, spring water, etc.
• Jesus is talking about 'living water.'
• This water is available to all & it's free.
• You can't find it in the grocery store. Can't draw it from a well.
• This water comes from God Himself.
• All we have to do is to repent of our sins and allow Jesus to come into our hearts. Our lives will be changed forever.
• Jesus, a Jew, spoke to a Samaritan woman & asked for a drink of water. Jews & Samaritans didn't get along but Jesus came to offer life, eternal life.
• We know that Jesus is God in the flesh. Emanuel - God with us.
• Psalm 42:1 - As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God!
• Jeremiah 2:13 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
• Do we even understand the gift that God is offering us; the living waters; eternal life?!
• God's love will always care us through.
• I am the way, the truth & the life. No one comes to the Father but by me.  John 14:6

Holy Communion

Roll Call:

Pastor Baggett

Rev. Pelton

Debra & Marceal W.

Willie & Bonnie T.

Thelma W.

Clark M.

Ginger R.

Evelyn H.

Violet W.

Rhonda L.

Closing Prayer: Pastor Baggett