Worship + Salvation
You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. (John 4:22) Jesus was in Samaria and tired from his journey, so he sat down and asked a woman to draw some water for him. They have an interesting discourse where Jesus says some revealing things about the woman, things he would not know unless he were a "prophet," as she calls him. She then makes an off-topic comment saying something religious, and the quote above is Jesus' reply. There is a ton going on in this conversation, but what I noticed today, something I've never noticed, is the correlation between worship and salvation . Jesus says the Jews worship what they know, for (because) salvation is from the Jews. To me, that means we worship because we have been saved. This has a few implications: first, to truly worship, we must recognize our need of a savior . This requires brokenness to some degree, for who needs...