The woman at the wellJohn 4:7-26Length: Long

1 Eat

Read the passage slowly, read it again, then retell it in your own words. If you can't retell it, read it once more.

• Read
• Reread
• Retell

2 Digest

Answer from what the passage actually says — stay in the text.

1. What does this passage show me about God?

   • Count the reasons Jesus wasn't supposed to talk to this woman. What does He do instead?

2. What does it show me about people — and about myself?

   • Jesus brings up the one subject she'd rather avoid — and she stays in the conversation. What are you steering conversations away from?

3. What will I obey this week? (a concrete step, with a day)

   • Where do you keep going back for water that doesn't last — and what would asking Jesus for the living kind mean this week?

4. Who will I tell?

   • Who do you know who's been written off by all the respectable people?

3 Grow

Growth is God's part, not yours. Do the cycle faithfully and trust Him to give the growth (1 Corinthians 3:6–7).