Getting People Interested

Getting People Interested
John 4:1-37
Crossing people off ?
It’s easy to prejudge people and conclude they would never be interested in the gospel…
Jesus broke with custom…
The problem of race …
The problem of false religion …
The problem of gender …
The problem of sin …
Principles of action …
1. Contact others socially…
John 4:1-6 Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John 2 (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), 3 He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. 4 But He needed to go through Samaria.
5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

We must have contact with non Christians..
Mark 1:17 – fishers of men
Luke 5:27-39 – friend of publicans and sinners
Separation or isolation?
John 17:15-17 – in the world not of the world
1 Cor. 5:9-13 – not to withdraw from those outside of Christ
Separation or isolation?
Proverbs 18:24 A man who has friends must himself be friendly …

2. Find common interest…
John 4:7-8 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink." 8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

2. Find common interest…
Jesus saw she had come to draw water ..
He began there and asked her for a favor…
He was willing to allow her to meet His needs..

3. Create interest…
John 4:9-15 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, "How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 10 Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water." 11 The woman said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?"

3. Create interest…
13 Jesus answered and said to her, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life." 15 The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw."

3. Create interest…
1 Make sure your life has true depth of Christlike salt and light … Matthew 5:13-14
2 Raise the flag by mentioning God or prayer or some spiritual reference ..
3 Commend anything they say which indicates any interest in spiritual matters …
4 Be ready to respond to questions .. 1 Pet 3:15
Getting People Interested
John 4:1-37