Living Water in a Divided World
John 4: 4 – 42 There’s something about meeting Jesus at high noon. In the ancient world, in the arid climate of Israel, noon was not the hour you casually ran errands. It was hot. It was bright. And if you drew water at that hour, it was because you had to—or because you preferred the solitude. The woman we meet in John 4 comes to Jacob’s Well alone, in the heat of the day, expecting an ordinary chore in an ordinary moment. But her experience there turns out to be anything but ordinary. And maybe that’s where some of us are today. We show up carrying the weight of division—division in our nation, in the Church, in our own neighborhoods and even in in our families. We show up just trying to make it through another day, another headline, another reason to feel weary. We stand in the midst of a deeply divided America… in the midst of a deeply divided western Christianity. And perhaps, like that woman, we arrive at the well, heads down, simply hoping to get through th...