• Home
• Weekly Lessons
• InTruth
• True Worship

 

​Initiate

A video introduction using illustrations, personal stories, metaphors, or active learning examples to begin the discussion.

 

 

---

 

​Interact

After the video, prompts are supplied for thinking and sharing with others personal perception and experience. This opening activity prompts participants to think about and relate to the topic, and to share with others. 

 

 Consider a few things we think we know, and although it’s not life-changing information, it reminds us about what else we might be missing:

• The word “queue” is still pronounced the same way if you drop the last four letters.
• “Almost” is the longest word with all its letters in alphabetical order.
• “Rhythm” is the longest word without a vowel.
• Beetles, if you were to eat them, taste a little like apples 
• A cockroach can live several weeks without its head.
• Fingernails grow four times faster than toenails.
• The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
• An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
• Slugs have four noses.
• Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people.
• The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump. (If you play basketball, you might have additional examples in your sphere.)

This list highlights how much we don’t know, even about the most basic things. Can you think of a time when you were surprised when you found out that something you thought you knew turned out to be different? If so, you are not alone.

---

​Insight

The Bible discussion begins with a careful reading of the whole passage, either from your own Bibles, or from the provided images below.

Then participants are to ask:

1. What is going on in this passage of Scripture?
2. What are the key words and phrases? Highlight them.
3. Why do you think this passage is included in the Bible?
4. What does it contribute to our “knowing Christ” and “living in Christ”?

 

Download PDF of John 4:19-26

In this interaction, the Samaritan woman voices what she “knows” about her ancestors’ mountain, the dispute with the Jews, and the hope of the Messiah. Jesus once had a similar exchange with Nicodemus (John 3), a Jew who also thought he knew. Yet Jesus revealed that true life is born of the Spirit. To both, he shows there is more than what we think we know. For the Samaritan woman, Jesus shifts the focus: worship is not about geography, buildings, or traditions, but Spirit and truth. “You worship what you do not know,” he says, pointing to faith rooted in partial understanding. Then he opens the door wider: “a time is coming and has now come” when worship is no longer tied to place but to the presence of God’s Spirit.

Her longing for someone who will “explain everything” is answered in the most surprising way: “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.” Jesus rarely declares himself so plainly as Messiah, but he does here. Why? In this moment, limited knowledge meets living truth, and what she thought she knew gives way to the Messiah before her. Paul later writes, “Now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face” (1 Corinthians 13:12).

---

​

Insight Out

A parting video clip with a personal invitation to apply the message to “knowing Christ” and “living in Christ” in the coming week.