Weekly Study Guide

This week in "Walking With the Savior,” Our journey continues into John 4, where Jesus encounters a mixed-race woman who comes to draw water. Surprised and curious, she could not understand why He would ask her for a drink, given that Jews typically did not associate with Samaritans. The Jews believed that they should not use dishes that had been used by Samaritans. As a result, a Jew who drank from a Samaritan woman’s vessel would become ceremonially unclean. This encounter opens our discussion on mixed races at a time when many people are relocating from one region to another, which can ignite conflict and controversy within communities. Jesus moves beyond trivial human distractions to a divine appointment. We are living in a time when, from God's perspective, the unclean are calling one another unclean, without realizing that all are unclean apart from the cleansing work of Calvary’s cross. Man’s greatest problem is not mixed races, but rather the urgency to race to the cross for forgiveness from the Master and the author of deliverance.