AS YOU MEET WITH EACH OTHER THIS WEEK, CONSIDER THESE QUESTIONS:
This week we looked at Jesus's encounter with the woman at the well in John 4. Evange began the conversation by discussing the role that water plays in sustaining life as we considered Jesus's concept of "living water." While there are many things people go to to quench their "thirst" in life, Jesus says that he alone can provide the water that truly satisfies.
1. Jesus said that whoever drinks from this (literal) well will thirst again, and he was tying this to the ways the woman had lived her life trying to find heart satisfaction in the world. What are the ways that we try to do this? With bad things that are obviously sin, and also with good things that are gifts from God, but not intended to provide ultimate heart satisfaction?
2. Jesus brings up the woman's past of trying to find in romantic relationships what only God can give. How is this call to change your life (repentance) so important when it comes to drinking of the well of life?
3. How can we point others to this well, to this “spring of water welling up to eternal life” within us?