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DISCIPLES ARE WORSHIPPERS (4 OF 7)

by Collin Wimberly

Scripture: John 4:19-24
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Disciples Are Worshippers (4 of 7)
Series: Discipleship: Be One Make One
Collin Wimberly
John 4:19-24


CIT - Jesus teaches the woman at the well the nature of true worship. Proposition - Christians today need to understand and then experience the reality of true worship. Goal - Cognitive - I want them to think righty about worship so they can experience the reality of worship. Question - How are we to be worshippers of God?

INTRODUCTION: I have been in ministry for 33 years. Worship is a hot topic in many churches. 25 years as a senior pastor. I have served in 2 states and 5 churches. Some of the churches were small, some larger. Some were wealthy, some very poor. Do you want to guess what subject was the most controversial in everyone of them? Worship.

Things have not changed much. Worship was a hot topic in Jesus' day also.

Context: Jesus is in Sychar a town in Samaria. His disciples have gone to find food and left him alone at the town well. While he waits a woman comes to draw water. Jesus speaks to her and announces that he is the Messiah, the promised one.

As her speaks to her, Jesus goes to some very sensitive areas of her life. She responds by trying to change the subject. She talks to him about worship and where a person should worship.

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In these verses Jesus clears up the confusion she has about Worship. He then defines what Worship is. Then we find must how important Worship is to God.

As Disciples how are to be worshippers? FIRST, WE HAVE TO CLEAR AWAY THE CONFUSION ABOUT WORSHIP - vs. 19-22 Background - 2 Kings 17 Assyria attacks Samaria, overruns the city and deports a large segment of the population and replaced them with people from all over their empire. They brought their own false religions and pagan practices. Over the centuries they intermingles with the Israelites who were left and a religion that claimed to follow the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob developed, but one with their own pecu ...

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