CONVERSATION STARTERS
Conversation Starters help us dig deeper, connecting Sunday’s sermons with our Monday lives. These prompts have been designed to help Community Groups grow in their relationship with God, with one another, and with their neighbors. Please know that these questions are meant to be a resource to you. You do not have to follow them verbatim or get through them all. We trust you to know your group and to ask the questions based on your group needs.

1. Read John 4:1-42. To really experience this scene, have one person read the narrator part, and three others read the parts of Jesus, the Samaritan woman and the disciples.

2. We learn that Jews “have no dealings with Samaritans” in verse 9. Who do you have no dealings with? What makes these people feel so different that it seems relating just wouldn’t work?

3. How did Jesus interact with the marginalized here or in other stories throughout the gospels? (Share examples.)

4. Discuss the disciples' role in this scene - what did they get right? What did they miss?

5. Who is one person you encounter regularly that you could initiate conversation with in simple ways, rather than avoiding them or focusing attention on your phone?

PRAYER PROMPT
Pray that God would help us to see opportunities to engage with people we cross paths with, remembering that evangelism begins with knowing people and listening to their stories. Ask Him for eyes to see what keeps us isolated, occupied or distracted from connecting with those around us.

Title: The Samaritan Woman at the Well
Scripture: John 4:1-42
Speaker: Andrew Jones, AndrewJ@cckc.church

> Jesus is after our shame (not our pretense)

> Jesus is after worshippers, not ideologies

> Jesus is after everyone (even them)