学习作见证
约翰福音四章10至24节
10耶稣回答说：“你若知道神的恩赐和对你说‘给我水喝’的是谁，你必早求他，他也必早给了你活水。”
11妇人说：“先生，没有打水的器具，井又深，你从哪里得活水呢？
12我们的祖宗雅各将这井留给我们，他自己和儿子并牲畜也都喝这井里的水，难道你比他还大吗？”
13耶稣回答说：“凡喝这水的，还要再渴；
14人若喝我所赐的水，就永远不渴。我所赐的水要在他里头成为泉源，直涌到永生。”
15妇人说：“先生，请把这水赐给我，叫我不渴，也不用来这么远打水。”
16耶稣说：“你去叫你丈夫也到这里来。”
17妇人说：“我没有丈夫。”耶稣说：“你说没有丈夫，是不错的。
18你已经有五个丈夫，你现在有的，并不是你的丈夫，你这话是真的。”
19妇人说：“先生，我看出你是先知。
20我们的祖宗在这山上礼拜，你们倒说，应当礼拜的地方是在耶路撒冷。”
21耶稣说：“妇人，你当信我。时候将到，你们拜父也不在这山上，也不在耶路撒冷。
22你们所拜的，你们不知道；我们所拜的，我们知道，因为救恩是从犹太人出来的。
23时候将到，如今就是了。那真正拜父的，要用心灵和诚实拜他，因为父要这样的人拜他。
24神是个灵（注：或无“个”字），所以拜他的，必须用心灵和诚实拜他。”
信息分享
接着，祂提出一个私人要求：「我能和你丈夫说话吗？」这个要求真正掀开了她的私生活并触及她空荡荡的心灵。今天有很多人都像她一样，他们以为，过了下一个转角，生活就会不一样。他们心灵空虚孤单，帮助他们醒觉他们自己都没有认识到的需要，就是我们传福音的机会。帮助他们的最好方法，就是用心聆听他们倾述自己。
那妇人的反应，就像常常发生的一样。她的话若用今天的语言来说，可以是：「你有你的教会，我有我的教会。」今天人们就会这样说，对很多人来说崇拜活动都与地点、传统和仪式相关。然而，我们必须让对方明白，最重要的不是甚么教会或宗教，而是我们个人认识基督。
耶稣很有礼貌地继续回答她：「最重要的，并不是在哪里敬拜，而是怎样敬拜。要用心灵去敬拜。神正要寻找这样敬拜的人。」因此，我们真正认识基督，才能为祂作见证。我们在生活中亲身经历祂的实在，才有东西与人分享。
你向人传福音之后，可能会回想检讨：「我应该这样说或那样说。」但请放心，我们只要以真诚的心努力为主作见证，即使有错漏之处，甚至我们以为失败的时候，神都会掌管使用我们。多年之后，你可能听见有人说，正是你昔日所作的见证，开始了一连串的行动，最终将他带到主里面！记住，求主每天都给我们为主作见证的机会，然后静待结果。
LESSONS IN WITNESSING
John 4: 10-24
10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?
12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again,
14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’
18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”
19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”
21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.
22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.
23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.
24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Message
Then He followed up what He had said with a personal request, “Could I talk with your husband?” That really opened up her personal life and touched her unfulfilled heart. There are so many people like her. They think that around the corner life will be different. They are unsatisfied and lonely. One of our opportunities is to help them realize their unrecognized need. Listening and letting them talk are one of the best ways to help them.
As so often happens, the woman said in modern language (v. 20), “You have your church and I have mine.” People will say that today. For many worship is generally bound up with location, tradition, and ceremony. We need to share with them that it is reality which counts. It is not a denomination. It is knowing Christ for ourselves.
Jesus was still gracious in His reply. He said quietly, “It’s not where we worship but how. It must come from the heart. That is what God is looking for.” Knowing Christ for ourselves is what makes our witness count. If we have proved Him in our own lives we will have something to share with others.
You may think afterwards, “I should have said this or that.” But be encouraged. God can overrule even if we say what seem to be the wrong words. God will use any sincere effort made for Him, even when we think we have failed. Years from now you may hear that it was your words which began the chain of events which led a soul to Christ. Remember: pray each day for an opportunity to share Christ and watch for the results.