Telling others about Jesus is a vital part of the world.

It is a vital part of what it means to be a Christian.

And yet you may prefer to leave that to the professionals.

On Truth For Life weekend, we're beginning a series titled, Frangelism.

We're going to learn how to reach friends, relatives, associates, and neighbors for Jesus.

That's the frame, friends, relatives, associates, and neighbors.

Today we'll find out how a simple daily task can become an event of eternal significance.

Alistair Begg is teaching from John chapter 4.

A number of us are of the vintage to recall when the song, Sounds of Silence, a catapulted

Simon and Garfunco from Obscurity and with names that frankly deserved obscurity into the

mainstream and into transatlantic success.

But recalling the description of a great crowd of people, 10,000 people, maybe more, people

talking without speaking, people hearing without listening, people writing songs that

voices never share because no one dared disturb the sounds of silence.

Familiar words and a wonderful word picture on the part of Paul Simon.

The reason I mention it is because there's a very similar picture that is provided for

us here in John chapter 4.

And I thought that if I mentioned talking without speaking and hearing without listening,

then it may set our minds along the right kind of line to think about the predicament which

faced the disciples in so far as they were men who were looking without seeing.

They were looking without seeing.

Despite the fact that the disciples of Jesus lived close to him, listened to him, were

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