In this message, Pastor Eric explores the profound and challenging invitations present in the simple exchange between Jesus and an “unnamed woman from Samaria”—a life-altering exchange that becomes possible only because both parties choose to enter into the shared vulnerability that marks its beginning: Jesus—a man, a Jew, tired from a long journey, wandering through a place that his religion and culture had taught him to despise, had taught him to think were lesser—asking for help from a woman of that region. Jesus, scripture it says, was nourished by this exchange in a way he wasn’t with his disciples; likewise, this woman leaves with her own deeper thirst quenched. What might they have to teach us as we wander through our own wilderness seasons seeking greater purpose, hope, and peace; as we also seek new life?
