Thank you. Sometimes well-meaning Christians can push people away by coming across as judgmental or by launching into a theological monologue.

On Truth for Life weekend, we'll learn a more effective way to share the

gospel by examining how Jesus responded to a morally corrupt woman who was a social outcast.

Alistair Begg is teaching from Chapter 4 in the Gospel of John.

Here we find the friend of sinners crossing the established boundaries of race and of gender,

but we should not be at all surprised because as we discover in verse 42,

what we are dealing with here is he who is the savior of the world. Now, some in teaching this passage would immediately

get bogged down on the history and geography of it. I find that personally rather tedious. I'm trying

to understand that my congregation can very quickly find out all those things for themselves,

with a good study Bible or with just a fairly

routine commentary. So I'm not going to spend a lot of time about Syker and Samaria and

Jacob and everything else, not because it's unimportant, but because it's not the thrust of what we're

considering in this encounter.

Nor am I going to stumble over the fact that it says that he had to go through, he had to

pass through Samaria. Is that an expression of geography, or is that a divine must?

That's the kind of thing you can talk about when you're falling asleep this afternoon.

All we want to keep in mind is what John has already told us in verse 17 of chapter 3,

that God has not sent his son into the world to condemn the world. Jesus has not come with a

ministry of admonition. He has come with mission. And as we ended yesterday morning, we at least confronted ourselves by the

possibility that those of us who are seeking to follow Christ are in danger of adopting a posture

in relationship to our culture, which is not the posture of Jesus, which is one of mission,

but rather is the posture of ourselves, which is one of admonition. So that in encountering an individual such as this lady,

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