January 17th Virtual Worship
| The Order of Worship: Second Sunday After Epiphany |
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| Welcome |
| Call to Worship |
| A Word About Today's Music Selections |
| Prelude: Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ - Arr. Bach |
| The Bells Call Us to Worship |
| Hymn of Adoration: Glorius Things of Thee Are Spoken |
| Scripture Reading: John 4: 7-15 |
| A Message to Children |
| Worship in Music: I Heard the Voice of Jesus - Harriss |
| Pastoral Prayer & The Lord's Prayer |
| Hymn of Reflection: Holy Spirit, Truth Divine |
| Sermon: Journeying with John; The Living Water |
| Hymn of Parting: Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing |
| Benediction |
| On Eagle's Wings |
| Postlude: Forward Through the Ages - Sullivan, Arr. Leatherman |
Music Ministry Team: Kristin Petty, Dwight Huntley, Matthew Leone, Rene Vazquez
Worship Team: Sarah Haas, Marc Hayden
Technology Team: Michael Kendall, Mark Raker, Jerry Weissinger
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Key Notes from the reading & sermon:
Journeying with John, The Living Water
A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) 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.” The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?” Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”
[Reading above - John 4: 7-15]
More so than the other gospel writers, John explores the depth and breadth of the identity of the One he names in his very first verse as the “Word”. The gospel writer uses the woman at the well to continue this exploration on the heels of the inquiry of Nicodemus. Jesus and this unnamed woman are representatives of Judeans and Samaritans, neighbors and extended family members, who have been estranged and at enmity with one another for generations. Jesus is in possession of a gift he names as “living water”. This gift gives life to a relationship of growing understanding between unlikely conversation partners and nurtures communion with God.
Questions for Reflection:
What elements in this story suggest some practical steps of reconciliation for the enmity we feel for others in our community and nation?
John 7:37-39 is another passage where “living water” is mentioned. In that proclamation from Jesus what is the definition he gives to “living water”? How does this definition add insight to the conversation between the woman at the well and Jesus?
Today’s story continues through the 42nd verse of chapter 4. Note the self-revelation this conversation produces in Jesus (4:26) and the new life of discipleship produced in the woman (4:39-42). How are your identity and actions transformed by the “living water”?
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