Welcome to our online worship for Sunday, January 31, 2021
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Living Water 
​ The Season of Epiphany  ​

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Prelude
Brian Turner
Help Us Accept Each Other
Special Music
Andrea Bailey and Brian Turner
Hallelujah Even Here
Mia Fieldes, Jonathan Smith, and Lydia Laird Arr. by Dan Galbraith

Right now I feel a little overwhelmed
Right now I could really use some help
Right now I don't feel like it is well with my soul

I've tried to find a way around the mess
I've prayed in faith that the night would end
Right here when I just can't understand
I'll lift my hands

Chorus
Hallelujah, when the storm is relentless
Hallelujah, when the battle is endless
In the middle of the in between
In the middle of the questioning
Over every worry, every fear
Hallelujah, even here
Hallelujah, even here

Somehow I bow and my heart gets free
Too far, too hard becomes so easy
I find peace here in surrendering
In letting go

Chorus

Sometimes nothing left to give
Becomes the sweetest offering
And sometimes choosing just to sing
Is the thing that changes everything
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Chorus
   Prayer of Ignatius of Loyola 
Teach us, good Lord, to serve you as you deserve; to give and not count the cost; to fight and not heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek rest; to labor and not ask for any reward, except that of knowing that we do your will; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen  ​
​Scripture
John 4:4-26 NIV
The Woman at the Well
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4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
17 “I have no husband,” she replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. 18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”
Living Water 
The Woman at the well had faced her share of rejection.  She had been divorced five times and she was living with a man. Jesus was in Samaria at the town of Sychar at mid- day tired and thirsty from a long walk. He asked her for a drink of water, and she was very surprised. Jews did not associate with Samaritans in that day, in fact they usually avoided even traveling through the region. Also, men, especially rabbis were not supposed to talk with women in broad daylight. Yet, Jesus talks with her about Living Water. She received the good news of God’s love and grace and her life was changed! She shared this good news with the people back home and they came to believe in this Living Water as well! Would you be willing to share with someone that has experienced their share of rejection about this Living Water this week?

Message 
Pastor John Fowler
Living Water ​

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Offertory
Andrea Bailey and Brian Turner
What A Friend We Have in Jesus
Words: Joseph M. Scriven
Music: Charles C. Converse
Arr: Larry Moore





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Children's Message
Kim Garland
Attributes of God for Kids
Lesson 5
Postlude 
Brian Turner
Blessed Quietness
arr Bober
Do not be afraid.
The kingdom of heaven comes
to change and transform us,
to reshape the world
according to God’s reconciling will.
Go forth to bear witness
to this community of love.
May the living presence of
Christ be with you,
the life-giving power of
God sustain you,
and the perfect light of the
Holy Spirit shine within you,
now and to the end of the age.
Amen.