Sermon | ”Past & Present” | March 12

Someone once said, 'we can't change the past nor craft the future. We can only live in the present.' Yet, far too many people are stuck in the past, imprisoned by choices, behaviors, and words that can't be taken back. Far too many people are defining themselves by their past. When Jesus encounters a woman in the midday sun drawing water - isolated from the other women of her community - he encounters a woman who's whole life is being defined by her past. Jesus offers a new way forward, a water that will spring up in her, a healing of her past - so that she can live in the present, defined only by Jesus. If we want to live well, we must allow our past to be put to death.