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Did you know you can read online reviews of your church? How often have you talked about “reaching people where they are”—and realized that much of the time, they are on the Internet? We’ve been living in a digital world for quite a while now. Justin Wise speaks about social media as this generation's printing press—a revolutionary technology that can spread the gospel farther and faster than...

This is the setting for a profound act of self-disclosure by Jesus: he reveals to the woman who he truly is. Many times throughout the gospels, Jesus purposefully shrouds his messianic identity. But in John 4:26, Jesus tells the woman at the well plainly, “I am the Messiah!”11 In the gospel of John, this is the first time he’s ever spoken about himself in such a way. He doesn’t share first with his people or his disciples, but a lowly Samaritan—and a woman, no less! St. John is making a big-time
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