So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” 30 They went out of the town and were coming to him.
“Listen to what happened to me!” There. My seminary professor would be proud. He teaches that we should always start with a “hook”, something to draw the audience in. When we hear these words, we eagerly await the story. That is what happened when the woman at the well met Jesus. First of all, as a Samaritan, she was not supposed to talk to a Jew. But Jesus drew her to himself and revealed his power to know her in her deepest being. The hook worked with the inhabitants of the town and they wanted to hear more from this man who just may be the Messiah.
When we get saved, these are the words that flow from our mouths as we describe the joy of meeting Jesus for the first time. Sadly, this has a way of wearing off. We seem to forget the initial sensation of our new life and we thus lose one of our greatest tools in evangelism, our testimony. When Paul arrived in Damascus on that fateful day, he told all what happened to him. When he was before his accusers in Acts 22, he told them what happened to him. When he was before King Agrippa in Acts 26, he told him what happened to him. We don’t tell people what happened to us when we met Jesus. What happened? May we say to the people, “Come see a man…” Say to this people,”He is the Christ!”
Something will happen to them.