Walk This Way: Walking the Long Way

03/08/2026|Pastor Aaron Perry

Experience & Encounter

These questions are an invitation to experience your life with God. Use them on your own or in community as you seek to follow Jesus.

1. Thirst is a significant theme in John 4 and elsewhere in John’s Gospel. Jesus promises to quench by the Holy Spirit. Think about thirst. We become thirsty naturally and we will become thirsty if we don’t drink water. Our thirst for God won’t be quenched by anything but God. Have you substituted the Living Water for another temporary satisfaction? Where are you thirsty for God?
2. While God has no physical limitations and so God can be present anywhere, God sometimes lets His presence be a little more known. We are practicing walking (or a substituted practice) as a church. Have you been walking (or practicing something else like listening to music, pondering a Psalm, or reading a story from Jesus’ life) to practice the presence of Jesus this week? What has that experience been like?
3. Read 2 Corinthians 5:16-21. The woman at the well was an unlikely ambassador, and yet she became Christ’s ambassador to her town! While many may have seen her “from a worldly point of view” or “according to the flesh” (two phrases translated from 2 Cor. 5:16), she was not a lost cause to Jesus. Humbly, allow the Lord to bring to mind someone whom others may see as a lost cause. For some of us, it might even be ourselves. In Christ, no one is hopeless! There are no lost causes in Christ! Who may Christ be calling as his ambassador of reconciliation even though it may shock people in the church or the world?

“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.” 1 JOHN 1:7 NIV