This Sunday I am speaking from John 4 and the story of the woman at the well. In this story, Jesus encounters a Samaritan woman who is ostracized from her community, going to draw water in the heat of the day.
Jesus is able to engage this woman in a spiritual conversation that so impacted her that she went back and told her whole village about Jesus. And they came to believe that Jesus was the Savior of the World because of this woman's testimony--which is ironic, for as a Samaritan woman who had had five husbands and was living with someone who was not her husband, she would not have had any social standing or standing in court to make a credible "testimony."
But her powerful encounter caused her village to forget who she was and be impacted by Jesus.
Now, none of us are Jesus. He was the master at everything, including spiritual conversations. But I wonder if most Christians can have any type of spiritual conversation at all. Our people generally speak nothing about their fait
h to their co-workers, friends, or neighbors. Even within Christian families, these conversations are often missing (and left to Bible class teachers). Why is this? I would give three reasons:
Here is a decent resource on how to have Spiritual Conversations.
Why do you think people have so few spiritual conversations? How can we change this?
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This is a great topic. I find it most easy to talk about my faith in places like the Prison. I know the guys who show up where I have a class are crying for answers and are seeking.
But in places like work, many are content with their places in life and have no interest in improving their status with God. What I have done at work is to take a book like The Case For Christ by Strobel to help guide the conversation into the spiritual realm.
I love the prayer song that starts : Lead Me To Some Soul Today. Lord, teach me just what to say...
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