Colourful Dreamer

You can listen to this sermon here Gate Pa – Year A   3 rd   Sunday in Lent - 2023   Readings: Psalm Psalm: 95 First Reading: Exodus 17:1-7 Second Reading: Romans 5:1-11 Gospel: John 4:5-42      What I want to say: Continuing our theme of looking at people who lived the Beatitudes with persistence – using the story of this woman who is made visible though her persistence with Jesus to then look at Georgina Beyer – a woman of great persistence What I want to happen: ·        Who in this parish would you hold us as someone who lives their faith persistently or helps you live with persistence. ·        How has this parish helped you live with persistence over the last 3 years The Sermon      1.  ...

Last week we heard the story of Nicodemus scurrying in the night and not seeing. This week we have the story of the woman from Samaria and Jesus (John 4) meeting at noon at Jacobs well for all to see. Wells are important in-between places where all go. Wells are where patriarchs and Moses meet their wives. The well is where critical life changing encounters with God occur. Bill Loader [1] says is a wonderful piece of drama with many levels of meaning. “As always in John its central character is God and God’s gift of life through the invitation to live in the holy space of love, the true worship in the Spirit, which is also the living space of the Father and the Son. That love, embodied, cuts across racial and cultural prejudice, affirms women, engages and loves sinners. In a man’s world a woman is the supreme example, exercising ministry, but doing so with the fragility and hesitancy and perhaps inadequacy which happens when ordinary human beings engage in ministry. That is also cut...