Be an Evangelist for Jesus

4/7/2019

This last week I received a call from Sister Finn in Missouri and she was telling me about a sermon she had preached and it inspired me so much, she was asked to send it to be put in our newsletter or Express. So expect more on this subject. Then I started preparing for Sunday school and it is about the same woman, however from a different viewpoint.

You can find the Biblical story of this unknown woman in John 4:4-42. We modern Saints of God call her the “Samaritan Woman” because she lived in Sychar, Samaria. She was a woman who had had many husbands and was living with a man that was not her husband. Today that is not as big a deal, as it was in Jesus’ time. It is likely that the average woman had little to nothing to do with her, so she was just coming to the well at the time that Jesus arrived.

Jesus had been traveling for quite a while since the Bible states he was “wearied with his journey.” He had his day’s travel planned so that he might be there on that day at that time just to meet her need; just as He is here today to meet our needs. The difference between Christians today and this woman is that she was not expecting it and it filled her heart with a happiness and passion to share what Jesus had done for her.

Today when people have prayed and Jesus has met their need, they accept it as an everyday occurrence instead of a divine answer. We have lost our passion (Merriam-Webster Dictionary states that passion means an emotion then it further states intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction). We no longer get so excited about what God has done and is doing in our lives today.

However, this woman, this example of how we as Christians should be, became the starting point of a great revival. She was so excited that she left her “waterpot” and went straight out to tell the people what Jesus had said and what He had done for her. Her reaction to what Jesus did for her caused a citywide revival.

Have you let your passion for spreading the Gospel of Christ die? Is your excitement so weak that it is not even reaching the ones nearest you? The time to win the lost is now and the tool we need to do this is the “passion,” the “thrill,” the “excitement,” and the desire to talk to others Christians and sinners alike about what God is doing for us.

C.I. Wilson