Mission One: Proclamation
In the story of the Samaritan woman, we remind ourselves that she came to the well at 12 noon, obviously because she was avoiding people. She was a victim of human relationships. Her wounds had made her an addict. However, her encounter with Jesus healed her of the wounds, and “the woman put down her water jar and hurried back to the town to tell the people, ‘Come and see a man who has told me everything I have done; could this be the Christ?’ (Jn 4:28-29). Her encounter made her free of her addiction, and as a result she returned to people; returned to the people as a herald of “Good News.”
Experience of Jesus is positively contagious. The two disciples, John and Andrew, who went and stayed with Jesus for the rest of the day, would like […]