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: Reid Kapple, ReidK@cckc.church

> The love of Jesus knows no barrier

“Some Christians argue that we shouldn't even talk about race or use the word since it’s a manmade concept. Using the term only serves to further divide us…Discarding the word race would make it easier to ignore the devastating and deadly impact of racialized ghettoization. Further we would fool ourselves into thinking that this is just a problem of the past.”
- Dr. Irwyn Ince, The Beautiful Community

“Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water…If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing.”
-CS Lewis, Mere Christianity

> Don’t let barriers keep you from others

> Don’t let barriers keep you from Jesus