Come See a Man

Introduction

• Pastor Lisa introduces her sermon, connecting it to previous church messages on hunger and thirst for God.​

• Emphasizes that the Word of God is inexhaustible and always brings new revelation.​

Setting the Stage

• A story and a video illustrate the experience of feeling spiritually thirsty and encountering grace.​

• Compares physical thirst (travel experiences, water) to spiritual thirst that only God’s living water can satisfy.​

The Well, The Woman, and The Water

• Central passage: John 4, Jesus’ meeting with the Samaritan woman at the well.​

• The well represents a place for divine encounter, restoration, and change.​

1. The Well

• The importance of spiritual thirst and the role of the well as a place to meet God.​

• Jesus intentionally goes out of His way to meet the woman, underscoring divine appointments regardless of one’s past.​

2. The Woman

• Details the Samaritan woman’s background: ostracized, broken, carrying shame, seeking fulfillment through relationships.​

• Jesus knows her past and future, cares for her, and shows there are no barriers to God’s love.​

• Every believer is “the one” sought by the shepherd (reference to the parable of the lost sheep).​

3. The Water

• Jesus offers “living water,” which meets deeper needs and provides ongoing spiritual satisfaction.​

• Drawing from scientific facts about water in the human body to illustrate our need for living water spiritually.​

• The living water symbolizes healing, restoration, and renewal.​

Application to Everyday Life

• Everyone has unique brokenness, pain, and spiritual crutches, but personal encounters with Jesus facilitate healing and transformation.​

• Testimony: Pastor Lisa’s story of adoption, rejection, and eventual healing through Christ’s living water.​

Breaking Out of Religion into Relationship

• Warns against settling for a religious routine and urges true relationship with Christ.​

• God wants believers to go deeper and develop authentic faith that brings freedom and peace.​

Sin, Shame, and Grace

• Honest confrontation of sin and broken relationships as barriers to spiritual progress.​

• Emphasizes God’s ability and willingness to heal, restore, and provide grace, no matter one’s history.​

• True satisfaction and identity are found in Jesus alone, not in possessions or achievements.​

Invitation and Closing

• A call to come to the altar, symbolically “the well,” for prayer, healing, and receiving living water.​

• Believers invited to confront their pain and desperation by seeking Christ for breakthrough and transformation.​

• Concludes with a prayer for God’s living water to fill and renew all present, reminding that the altar is a place for such encounters.