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"And he must needs go through Samaria."

[From John chapter 4] "And then He goes on in verse 3 and says, And He needed to go through Samaria. Now wait a minute, Jews did not go through Samaria. But He needed to. They had a little thing I like to call a "465". See it was very simple to go straight through. You could go right through to where He was going but they had a thing I call the 465. The Jews just went around because they didn't go to Samaria."

"The idea that we have that lets pray for the black church to do their thing and let's pray for people to get saved but we are not a part of that and let's pray for the white church but let's not communicate. See we are dividing and we are building on the division instead of unity.

See there's something about Jacob's well. It was a place where each of them could identify with because the Jews knew that the convenant had been cut with Abraham Isaac and Jacob and the Samaritan people believed the Pentateuch and so they also honored Jacob. It was a place they both could identify with. They both honored Jacob. He didn't meet her at a place where there was division. It was a place where they could have unity. He brought them to a spiritual place where they could have identity and common ground.

The only way we will build a multi-cultural church is by common ground. Most division starts with disagreement but Jesus started with what where they agreed. The other amazing thing is that Jesus didn't give up who He was to reach her. He didn't go into to town and buy Samaritan clothes and try and look like a Samaritan to reach her. He was Jewish and He knew who He was and He wasn't going to give up who He was. I don't have to act like you or look like you but we are going to do this on our common ground. I am so sick and tired of church leaders saying you will only reach who you are. That's not true."


[Full article at JesusMC.org/blog]

[Video-clip from Jesus Messiah Church]

posted by IndyChristian @ 2:37 AM