Do you have what it takes? --  Jeff Utu  Read John 4:1-42  Something happened to the woman in this passage after she had an encounter with Jesus. She was an outcast in her community and instead of being with others from her village, she decided to come to the well alone. When she showed up to the well, she not only found someone else  there, but he was a Jewish Rabbi. This Rabbi does something strange, he asks her for her assistance in getting some water. There, alone, Jesus asks her a question and the question was a request for help - to get some water. The conversation carried on during their encounter and eventually Jesus would move her assistance from physical help to spiritual need.   10 Jesus replied, “If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me, and I would give you living water.”  Then Jesus throws an absolute curveball. He says, “Go get your husband.” Obviously Jesus hasn’t served on the mission trips that I have been on. If someone is ready to receive the living water, you just go right into the prayer and then mark their names down and turn it into the mission organization to report back that you have, in fact, led someone to Jesus. WINNING! Jesus wasn’t concerned about turning in numbers to anyone though. He wanted to make sure she knew what she was getting into. He called out her sin and then she did what people in the church do when they start to squirm in their seats, they want to talk about religion. My people believe ‘this’, my denomination says ‘that’, your people say ‘the other’… Jesus wasn’t interested in a debate.   26 Then Jesus told her, “I am the Messiah!”  Something happened between verses 27-42, because she left her jar and immediately went back to testify about what she had seen and heard. This is the same town where she was ashamed to be around anyone. She somehow forgot about all that due to her encounter with Jesus. She went back to this town and told them everything. She was calling her community to come and see what she had seen. With all conviction, she asks, “Could this be the Christ?” Verse 39 says that many came to believe in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony. What woman? What was her name? We don’t even know, yet she was the first missionary to her town in Samaria who stirred others to believe in the Messiah – and to thirst no more.   TIME FOR REFLECTION  What qualifications do you or I need to introduce others to Jesus?  The woman had unspeakable joy and courage - no more shame. Is this what you sense when you share with others?  She believed that whatever well she drank from, she would thirst again. How does it impact our testimony when we have received and experienced living water?