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John chapter 4, verse 39, many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony.

He told me all that I ever did.

What an amazing verse. What an amazing picture of the power of

a testimony to Jesus. This woman, this Samaritan woman who meets Jesus at the well, has a conversation

with him, discovers that this is not just any normal man,

this is the Messiah, the Christ, who promises her satisfaction, a spring of water in her

soul welling up to eternal life, who calls her to worship and spirit and truth,

she encounters Jesus. That's all that she did. She encountered Jesus. And immediately she went

back into the town. She starts telling everybody about who she has met and says, why don't you come out and listen to this man, see this man, this Samaritan woman who had all these different husbands, the man she was living with now is not her husband, and she becomes a witness just like that, like instantly in her city. And many Samaritans from that town believed in

Jesus because of her testimony. It makes me think about when a friend of mine once told me, he's

working overseas for the spread of the gospel in a really hard

location where it's not easy to become a follower of Jesus, to lead others to follow Jesus.

And he told me that their practice was whenever they led someone to faith in Jesus,

they would immediately encourage that person, sit down with that person and say, okay, let's make a list of all the people you know

who don't know Jesus, which is basically everybody in their family, friends, everywhere.

So they list all these people, and then they said, let's now circle the five or

10 people on this list who are least likely to kill you if you share the gospel with them.

And I remember hearing that and thinking, wow, that's initial discipleship. Let's identify people who are least

likely to harm you if you share the gospel with them. And let's start there. And immediately,

my friend told me they would start to work on sharing the gospel with those five to ten people.

And I just, I can't help but to think about that story when I read this story in John 4 and think, this is the Christian life.

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