Just as the incomplete gospel creates a flawed theology today, this incomplete worship caused the woman to live in perpetual bondage. Her broken past defined her. Abundant life evaded her. Jesus’s next words were like the sounds of shackles breaking: “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth,
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