Let me have you, turn in your Bibles to John 3. John chapter 3 for our time of study. In God's word this morning. Just so, I've not really explained this up to this point, but I'm not intending to do a series through the entire Gospel of John.
but my intent here is to study John chapter 3 and 4, and to observe two encounters that Jesus has with two. very different people with Nicodemus, a religious lost Pharisee, and the Samaritan woman in John 4, a woman who was quasi-religious and immoral. Two very different people, Jesus engages them both about their condition before God, and we are seeking to learn from Jesus. We're trying to sit next to him as he engages these two individuals.
with the claims of, of Christ. We're at an interesting stage in our journey as a church, and I feel like even in my own development and evolution as a, pastor, I was telling people in the first service, I know I said this years ago, but I think I'm about a year away from being a good pastor. So I'm, I'm getting there. But with our move to Barnes looming before us, coming up later this year, there are some things that I'm trying to wrap my mind around and understand better, things that I'm trying to figure out and learn, and a number of the passages that we've been looking at in recent months and now here in John 3 is my attempt to do that for myself and for us as a church body.
there's a sense in which I would say I'm trying to find fully my voice and trying to clarify what our voice as a corporate body is as we seek to engage the lost not only individually as we reach out to other people, but also corporately when we gather together on Sunday mornings and And what have you. And I just can't think of a, a better way to clarify our voice to that end than to sit next to Jesus and passages like John 3 and John 4 and to listen to him as he speaks to Nicodemus and to the Samaritan woman and to find our voice and the clarity of that in his voice. We've looked at Jesus' full interaction with Nicodemus. We wrapped that up last week....
