Leaving the Comfort Zone

John 4:7-26

In Jesus’s day, Jews and Samaritans hated each other.  However, Jesus chose to go through Samaria versus traveling around the area.  Jesus also continued to challenge the status quo by talking with a Samaritan woman at the well in Samaria.  In this passage, we see Jesus step out of the “Jewish comfort zone” and meet this Samaritan woman exactly where she is.  As a result, many lives would be changed, and the Gospel message spread to many Samaritans.  Jesus asks us to also let go of our grudges/offenses and step out of the comfort zone into a world that is hurting and is in desperate need of the Good News.  


Questions for further thought:
1. What is hindering you from stepping out of your comfort zone?

2. What opportunities have you let pass you by as a result?  


​Challenge: Take time to pray for courage and ask for an opportunity to present itself today that will cause you to take a step outside your comfort zone.  (The key here is to take the step of faith when the opportunity presents itself—as He will give you at least one.)