we can learn so much from observing how Jesus related to people he wasn’t looking for a decision as we often do when speaking with a non-Christian he was patient and he sought to draw that person into the conversation allowing her to see her own need Jesus didn’t ever extend an invitation he waited for the people to invite themselves and he did it masterfully in John 49-14 we have the first part of their back and forth convers ation here’s how it goes she ends up asking Jesus all the right questions why are you willing to

ask me for a drink where do you get Living Water are you greater than Jacob who drank from this well he didn’t have Living Water did he it would be ideal if everyone we talked to who didn’t know the Lord was so intrigued with our life that they began asking all the right questions to us Jesus isn’t questioning this woman he’s drawn her into the conversation in such a way that she’s questioning him she’s asking asking him the right questions she was completely taken by this stranger from Judea who told her about living

water today we’re going to examine a story that is well known in the Bible it’s about Jesus Crossing all kinds of barriers going above and beyond to seek and to save someone it’s a story about our Lord’s encounter with a woman it is usually referred to as the woman at the well or the story of the Samaritan woman woman and it is found recorded for us in the first 30 verses of John 4 and we’re going to learn something today about the nature of our wonderful Lord the message is really divided into three sections first we’re going to see

how the Lord seeks us then we’re going to learn how he saves us and then we’re going to learn how he sends us so first of all how the Lord seeks us the first nine verses of John 4 I remember back in the early 90s we went through this phase in the church how many of you know the church goes through phases of methodologies how many of you remember the bus movement where everybody went to church on a bus I know all kinds of stories about that well we went through this phase and it was called The Seeker movement and it was