Worship is simple, yet complicated. Or we make it so. It can be individual or corporate; direct or indirect; focused on our praise to God or focused on our treatment of others. We discuss those things as we finish looking at John 4 and Jesus with the Samaritan woman at the well.
Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4 gives us a glimpse into the kind of worship--and worshiper--God accepts.
These are the words of John the Baptist from John 3. And they should be the words and attitude of all of us. John knew his role: Point people to the Savior. That's our role as well.
John 3:19-21 makes this statement: "Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil." Written 2000 year ago. Could've been written this morning.
This lesson includes the most well-known verse in the Bible, John 3:16. That your Creator would give His one and only Son tells you how much He loves you.
John 3 gives us our first interaction with Nicodemus--aka "Nicky." Jesus interrupts the Jewish leader to tell him that even he needs to be baptized.
In John 2, as Jesus begins His ministry, John talks about a few early signs that the Lord did or spoke--and the effect they had on people. Including the apostles.
When Jesus turned over tables, made a whip of cords, and drove people and animals and money out of the Temple area, He wasn't out of control. Angry? Absolutely. This was another sign, showing from passages like Psalm 69 and Jeremiah 7 that He was the Christ.
The first of Jesus' signs, according to the apostle John, was changing water into wine at a wedding feast in Cana of Galilee. This lesson takes a look at that miracle and what it tells us about Jesus--and ourselves.
Just as John the Baptist pointed others to Jesus, a couple of his early disciples did the same. And the four of them become apostles of the Lord--including Simon Peter.