You ever feel insignificant or ineffective when it comes to sharing your thoughts?

How will I be sharing the Gospel? Are you tempted to leave the task to preachers and missionaries and evangelists?

Many people assume that some kind of special training is required to share the Gospel.

But today, on Troek for Life Weekend, we'll see how God even used a social outcast to lead others to Jesus.

Alistair Begg is teaching from John, Chapter 4.

We resume our studies here in this fourth chapter in the 27th verse, the 26th, 27th, where

it is recorded for us that the declaration of the Messiah, shape of Jesus, has just been

made very, very clear to this individual.

A nameless lady in many ways from a human perspective, a strange individual to be on the

receiving end of such a bold and point-blank declaration, something that has not occurred

very often to this point in the Gospel record.

But Jesus has declared to her that while she had an expectation of the Messiah coming

and explaining things, he said, I, who speak to you and the very one, you anticipate.

Now the disciples had gone into the town, you will recall, from the opening verses of

the chapter to buy some food, it was around lunchtime when they had left Jesus, and now

they returned.

They arrived back in verse 27, not too soon to interrupt what's going on, nor too late

to miss what has actually happened.

We're told by John that they were surprised at finding Jesus talking with this woman.

Now, that may even be a surprise to us.

Why would they be surprised at such an encounter and such a conversation?

Well, the culture of the day was so very different.

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