8.17-Racism, going where we don't want to go.

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8.17-Racism, going where we don't want to go.

 It’s the living water of Jesus Himself in our hearts.
John 4.
. 23 But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. 24 God is [e]spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman *said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.” 26 Jesus *said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”

We must go where we others don’t want to go.
John 4.
4 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John2 (although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were),3 He left Judea and went away again into Galilee.4 And He had to pass through Samaria.

Jews didn't go through Samaria. They would go a long way around to avoid it.  It would be similar to someone saying today, "Don't go through Compton." 

Jesus wasn't like that.  He wanted to go there.

We may want the problems of racial tension to stay away from us.  We may not want to go there as a church or a community.  We must go where people hurt and try to help.  We have these issues in Dallas and Fort Worth.

“This is something that is happening all over the South these days, including right here in Dallas.  There is a debate brewing about the future of the Robert E. Lee statue in Lee Park where Arlington Hall, a reproduction of Robert E. Lee’s ancestral home in Virginia, sits and hosts some of this city’s most fashionable weddings. The original Arlington Hall was confiscated by Abraham Lincoln to become the grounds for our National Cemetery when Robert E. Lee resigned his commission in the United States Army to become the Commanding General of the Army of Virginia in the Confederacy.  Trust me, there are going to be some tense debates at City Hall and some very vocal public protests along Turtle Creek about this before too long, and I get it.”  Doug Skinner, Blog 8.13.17

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