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Repentant Sinners
Topic Started: Sunday, 11. November 2012, 19:51 (672 Views)
Deacon Robert
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I am not trying to put more wood on the fire. I have a lecture that poses the point that "the woman at the well" may notbe a sinner. The first 5 may have been leverite marriages. The man she is living with, though not her husband, does not constitute sin if both are not married according to Torah. The statement is "he knew all about me" does not connote sin, but a knowledge that comes from God. Jesus did not condemn her and she went to evangelize the people in her village.
Edited by Deacon Robert, Thursday, 15. November 2012, 02:00.
The burden of life is from ourselves, its lightness from the grace of Christ and the love of God. - William Bernard Ullanthorne

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Penfold
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That the woman by the well went on the become an evangelist, not only to her village but to the wider world to the point were in the Eastern Church she is venerated as St Photini is the end of the story what is of concern to me is why people seem to have a problem accepting the start of the story. Why do people have a problem accepting that the Woman by the Well was a notorious sinner who as a result of her encounter with Christ repented of her sins. That she was thirsty and discovered in the Lord a source of living water.

It is important that we grasp the reality that no matter how great the sin we have committed or how much we are reviled by the people of this world, we can be redeemed. Even though the rest of the world rejects us Jesus will not, he will reach out and help us to turn our lives around and change our ways, Though we may be ignorant of the way to change he will enlighten us and help us to walk in His way,

The Church has used the story of the Woman at the Well as an example of repentance from the outset, why do people have a problem with acknowledging that Jesus came to call sinners. and the woman at the well was one. The story makes little sense if she was a good and virtuous lady who was respected by her neighbours. Perhaps however people prefer to have as story that says,
You are misunderstood and the world around you needs to change its view of you so that you can be accepted, you do not need to change, the world will change, it is all those others who need to be saved you are OK.
Anyway I leave it with you, believe what you like, and I am sure that some will love a sermon that says, Your OK it's all the others who are wrong...
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paul

Is it possible for me to apologise now for any offence I may make in the future?!!!
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