Today's Lesson is again from John 4, the Woman at the Well:
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that pyou are qa prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
No doubt, woman at the well is a woman with a past. She has had five husbands, and the man she is with now is another. Jesus brings this up because he wants her to look honestly on her own life and come to terms with where she been and where she is at now. But that is too much for her - a little too close for comfort. Instead, she wants to talk about worship.
A lot of people who need spiritual help find it in church, but then resist it with questions and concerns cloaked in religion. They want to talk about the worship service. Or what we think about the inerrancy of scripture. Or our policy on gays.
These so-called religious concerns are often just shields which a person uses to hide themselves from true transformation.
Remember, it's a lot easier to debate how many angels can spin on the head of a pin than it is to change.
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