This coming Sunday is National Back to church Sunday. Thousands of churches across the United States will be welcoming visitors. Let’s look at why would someone want to invite another to church. Let’s look at John 4:28-41, and what happened after Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well.
28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to
the town and said to the people, 29 “Come,
see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?”
30 They came
out of the town and made their way toward him. 31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him,
“Rabbi, eat something.”32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know
nothing about.”
33 Then his disciples said
to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”
34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish
his work. 35 Don’t you have a saying,
‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at
the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and
harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad
together. 37 Thus
the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for.
Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their
labor.”39 Many of the
Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He
told me everything I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged
him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 41 And because of his
words many more became believers.
You
see people who meet Jesus are so moved by him that they want to introduce him
to those they care about. The woman in story cared about the other people in
her town.
Do you care about those in your community?
Be
wise today and always – share Jesus with those around you.
