You don't close the deal, God does. Your job is the start the conversation.

1. What if today’s message was given like this?

2. There wouldn’t be much interaction at all.

3. Sometimes our lives are like this too.

4. You can be the talker or

5. You can be the listener or

6. There can be no dialogue at all.

7. What if our faith is like this too?

8. You pass up opportunities

9. Because you don’t know what to say, !
so you don’t say anything at all

10. When it comes to starting a conversation, !
what are you fearful of?

11. Did you know if you don’t open your mouth !
there’s a 100% chance of failure?

12. Let’s not overanalyze what to say.

13. Instead, turn to someone right
now and discuss the
question, !
“How do you start a
conversation?”

14. When a Samaritan woman came to
draw water, Jesus said to her,
“Will you give me a drink?”
(His disciples had gone into the
town to buy food.)
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.)
!
- John 4:7-9

15. Will you give me a drink?
1. Jesus started by asking a great question

16. You are a Jew
and I am a Samaritan woman.
How can you
ask me for a drink?
2. Jesus listened…

17. Thus the saying ‘One sows and
another reaps’ is true. I sent you to
reap what you have not worked for.
Others have done the hard work, and
you have reaped the benefits of their
labor.”
Many of the Samaritans from that town
believed in him because of the
woman’s testimony,
“He told me everything I ever did.”
!
- John 4:37-39

18. One sows and another reaps
3. Your role: follow-up