Dena Davidson [00:00:00]:
Welcome to the Bible Study Podcast. We are hopping back in with Mr. Wesley Towne. What should I call you? Pastor Wesley Towne.
Wesley Towne [00:00:07]:
No titles. No titles. Just Wesley.
Dena Davidson [00:00:10]:
Wesley. Wesley. You're. You're fresh from a vacation.
Wesley Towne [00:00:13]:
Yeah. Hawaii. Hawaii. The great state of Hawaii. Let's go.
Dena Davidson [00:00:17]:
He is that. He is incredibly relaxed right now. Like, if you've ever met Wesley, you just know he's in his most relaxed vibe. So I'm gonna throw a curveball at you because you're so relaxed. We are four chapters into the book of John. Tell me, what is your favorite thing about John as a gospel author as opposed to all the others?
Wesley Towne [00:00:35]:
Yeah, I mean, there's so many aspects of John that are unique to the other three gospels. Purposely. I think one of the greatest things is from chapter one on, you get to be exposed to the identity of Jesus. He comes on the scene and he's like, this is who I am. Even in this text, we see, like, glimpses of his omniscience, like, he knows all things. And I think that's such an important thing that John is giving us a detailed account of who Jesus is as a person, which includes, obviously, his deity, but it also includes all of his attributes. Like, what are the attributes of God? And they're coming on the scene. Like, I mean, obviously, last week's Bible study, I assume, was on the woman at the well.
Dena Davidson [00:01:23]:
That's right.
Wesley Towne [00:01:23]:
Like, there's so much that surfaces from the identity of God in his attributes from that story, the story of Jesus and Nicodemus where he talks about being born again. There's just so much that we're learning about who Jesus is, which I believe is the most important question that every Christian should answer. Who is Jesus? And every non Christian should answer as well.
Dena Davidson [00:01:52]:
Yes, 100%. I love that answer. It really is. Like, when you study Matthew, Mark, Luke, you're like, I have a firm grasp of, like, what's happening and who the character of Jesus is. But John just has this way of bringing us in to the inside of the relationship dynamics and who Jesus is as a person. So it's much more familiar of a gospel.
Wesley Towne [00:02:13]:
Yeah, it's amazing.
Dena Davidson [00:02:14]:
I love that. Okay, well, as you mentioned, we are in the second half of a story that is infamous and beautiful. So it's the first time that Jesus really reveals his identity, and he chooses to reveal it to this Samaritan woman who is a social outcast. She's been divorced several times and had all of these husbands. And Jesus finds her, and he chooses to reveal who he is. And what he's about. So then the Samaritan woman goes away, and that's where our passage picks up in John 4:27. Just then, his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman.
Dena Davidson [00:02:51]:
But no one asked, what do you want? Or why are you talking with her? Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, come see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah? They came out of the town and made their way toward him. Meanwhile, his disciples urged him, rabbi, eat something. But he said to them, I have food to eat that you know nothing about. Then his disciples said to each other, could someone have brought him food? My food, said Jesus, is to do the will of him who sent me and finish his work. Don't you have a saying? It's still four months until harvest? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields. They are ripe for harvest. Even now.
Dena Davidson [00:03:35]:
The one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 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. So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. And because of his words, many more became believers.
Dena Davidson [00:04:08]:
They said to the woman, we no longer believe just because of what you said. Now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the savior of the world. Amazing.
Wesley Towne [00:04:20]:
What a story.
Dena Davidson [00:04:21]:
What a story.
Wesley Towne [00:04:22]:
That's it. We don't need to even go any further.
Dena Davidson [00:04:24]:
Bible study podcast over. Thank you for listening to the best of it, just in case someone is still listening.
Wesley Towne [00:04:30]:
True, true.
Dena Davidson [00:04:32]:
All right, starting out. What jumps out at you from this passage?
Wesley Towne [00:04:37]:
I mean, I just think we need to just sit in the reality of what just happened. Like, here is a woman who is broken, who could be carrying so much shame into her life, the world, her history, her past. And she says something that should be striking to us. Come see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah? Now, some of us read that with a posture of shame. Like, oh, man, was she there? Like, come see this man who told me everything I did that I've ever did. I Don't think she has a posture of shame here. I think she has a posture of excitement and transformation and encounter with the living God, God in the flesh, that has exposed his nature to her in such a way that she wants to tell everybody she knows about this encounter with Jesus.
Wesley Towne [00:05:38]:
And this is just so beautiful because when we think about, like, the. The identity and mission of Jesus, like, he came for people just like this.
Dena Davidson [00:05:50]:
Yeah.
Wesley Towne [00:05:51]:
Broken outcast, full of shame, carrying all kinds of guilt. And this is the person whose life is radically transformed in an encounter with Jesus. And she becomes the spokesperson in the early stages of the Gospel of John for the Messiah. This is incredible. And I think there's something to say about how our stories are redemptive stories. Like, she isn't, like, hiding her story. She's not like. Like, I just met Jesus, but I'm not going to talk about all the things I did.
Wesley Towne [00:06:29]:
No. She just puts it out in front. Like, there's something so beautiful and powerful about telling your story in an honest and vulnerable way to show how powerful the redemptive work of God is in the human life.
Dena Davidson [00:06:43]:
Yeah.
Wesley Towne [00:06:43]:
Like, from prison to praise. From a woman who had been in all kinds of relationships, broken relationships, over and over and over again, sexual relationships, now to being an evangelist for Jesus. That's how God works. And sometimes we forget that.
Dena Davidson [00:07:05]:
Amen. I think that is so true. And one of the things I also love about this passage is not just the transformation of the Samaritan woman, but the glimpse into how much the disciples don't get it.
Wesley Towne [00:07:17]:
Yeah, they don't get it.
Dena Davidson [00:07:18]:
They just don't get it.
Wesley Towne [00:07:19]:
She gets it.
Dena Davidson [00:07:19]:
She gets it.
Wesley Towne [00:07:20]:
Right.
Dena Davidson [00:07:21]:
And. And so much of John is subversive of expectations. Right. So like Nicodemus. Nicodemus. In the third chapter of John, it's like, we expect him to get it. And Jesus, like, you don't get it.
Wesley Towne [00:07:31]:
Yeah.
Dena Davidson [00:07:31]:
And then here we have the disciples who've been journeying with Jesus. They didn't even want to go through Samaria. Right. This was not on their bucket list to be evangelizing. They. They saw this as a complete. Like, hey, we're passing through to get to the real people that God has saved. And in that moment, they come to Jesus and they've learned at this point in their relationship with him, Wesley.
Dena Davidson [00:07:52]:
Not to ask questions like, no one asked, what do you want? Or why are you talking with her? Right. Like, I imagine the disciples. This is the gist I'm getting from John's telling. I imagine them kind of all looking at each other. I mean, like, you're not going to ask. Like, you're, you're not going to ask then I'm not going to ask. Right. Like, we're just.
Dena Davidson [00:08:11]:
We're on this man's ride. We don't really understand any part of this journey, much less what's going on here. And so then, then he goes on and continues to expose their ignorance. So they say, you know what you need Jesus? You need to eat something.
Wesley Towne [00:08:26]:
Yeah.
Dena Davidson [00:08:26]:
Which, again, the woman is acknowledging his divinity. They're like, really acknowledging his humanity. They're familiar with the fact that their master gets high hungry. Right. That they're, they're, they're. Jesus. Their rabbi is getting hungry. And so he turns around, though, and he's like, oh, no, no, I remember that living water in the previous chapter.
Dena Davidson [00:08:47]:
Now we're going to talk about food that we need. That is the bread of life that will never go hungry again. So he starts to talk to them about that, and again, they don't get it. Wesley. Right. They go on to say, could someone have brought him food? Like, this is an incredible. And helps us to understand that this book is not just. Not just John sitting down and writing a story that makes us believe that Jesus is God and that you should trust John's testimony.
Dena Davidson [00:09:15]:
This is a truthful story. Because this is embarrassing. Right?
Wesley Towne [00:09:18]:
Like, along with the disciples.
Dena Davidson [00:09:20]:
For the disciples, it's embarrassing how little they understood of what Jesus was about and even what his simple teachings meant.
Wesley Towne [00:09:28]:
Yeah. And, you know, it's important to note that he's breaking. The reason that they're not saying anything is because the whole story is a shocking story. He's breaking through multiple social cultural barriers. One, a male did not talk to a woman in public. Two, like a random woman. Two, you. You didn't go through Samaria and hang out and have a conversation with a Samaritan.
Wesley Towne [00:09:56]:
Like, they were this social outcast. And there's multiple things that Jesus does in the story that are just shocking to the disciples who lived and were embedded in the social fabric of ancient Israel. And I think that's beautiful. That's one of the reasons that they're not bold enough to ask is because it's so shocking.
Dena Davidson [00:10:18]:
They're like, I don't know where to start with the questions.
Wesley Towne [00:10:20]:
Yeah, I don't even know where to start.
Dena Davidson [00:10:22]:
Yes.
Wesley Towne [00:10:22]:
I think it's also important to make just a Bible context observation. One of the things that you have to understand when you're studying the Bible is there are multiple layers of context that you have to bridge the gap from our time to their time. One of those I just noted is just that social, cultural level of relationships and men and women in public and the Samaritans being social outcasts in ancient Israel for many reasons of which we probably don't have time to go into. But one of the things that is important in this context is just like the context of language and how Jesus communicated, kind of the genre of how he communicated. Jesus would often use figures of speech. And when people read the Bible and they read things like, maybe we're going to get to chapter six, where he's like, eat my flesh and drink my blood, or they read about the fact that Jesus is talking about food here. He's using this as a metaphor. He's not saying, I need some literal food.
Wesley Towne [00:11:30]:
He's saying my food, which becomes a metaphor for his commitment to be faithful to all the work that God the Father has planned for him while he's on this earth doing his work, doing his ministry. That he was. He was attentive to every detail of his calling, and he was fully committed to that calling. And it's represented by this word picture, food, this metaphor that he used. And I just think that's so great because first of all, one, for people listening to this, that you want to really study the Bible, you have to really bridge the gap of language and genre and communication. And one of the linguistic gaps to bridge is to know when there are figures of speech in the Bible, similes, metaphor, personification, so on and so forth. It's important when we say we believe the Bible literally. It doesn't mean that every word is meant to be literal.
Wesley Towne [00:12:30]:
Like when you say food, it's not necessarily meant to be literal food. It's conveying a truth through the medium of language, which in this context is a figure of speech.
Dena Davidson [00:12:44]:
Yeah.
Wesley Towne [00:12:45]:
And that even goes back to, like, what Jesus said in his temptation story, Matthew chapter four, where he said, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. He's again, he's using the idea of food and he's tying it to some spiritual truth and practice. And that is the practice of reading Scripture. So in this context, if we were to think of, like, how this applies to us, Jesus is setting us an example through the medium of beautiful language to say, my food was to be committed to my calling and everything that God had for me. And on, on, on a level of just us everyday followers of Jesus, we can take that example into our life and Say, yeah, we need food literally on a physical level, but we also need the food of saying, I am committed to what God has called me to do in my life.
Dena Davidson [00:13:45]:
Yes, that's so good. And I even love his language of finish his work. Yeah, Jesus said, my food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Because all the way at the end of John's Gospel, we're going to read the crucifixion story where Jesus says it is finished. And. And Jesus really understood why he came. He came to finish the work of salvation that was necessitated by our sin, by Adam and Eve's sin in the garden and forecasted by what God said in the. In the Curse of the Serpent, that he will bruise his heel, but he will crush your head.
Dena Davidson [00:14:22]:
That work began after the sin in the garden, and it has continued on, and Jesus accomplished it on the cross. And we just get the smallest theological foreshadowing of what is going to happen in the story, but also just this massive revelation that Jesus was not a victim to the Father's plan. He was a full participant. He had knowledge of it.
Wesley Towne [00:14:44]:
He was so good.
Dena Davidson [00:14:45]:
He was on his way to do. That was his food, he said, and he's speaking of the cross here. That's the work. And then he goes on to say, and this might. This is like classic Jesus, totally random interlude where again, the disciples are like, okay, we're talking about food and then harvest and work. What are you talking about? Jesus? Even, like, as I'm reading, I'm like, I can get a little lost. Don't you have a saying? It's still four months until harvest? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields. They are ripe for harvest.
Dena Davidson [00:15:11]:
So imagine the disciples just looking around like, okay, okay, okay, okay, nice. They're ripe for the harvest. I had a Bible teacher, you can. You can tell me if this is true in the Greek wise. So she said, one of the ways that you can read this is that it's white for the harvest. And it basically is saying, like, the time has come. And is he's talking literally about, are we still on the food train or is he talking about making food? What does harvest refer to in this passage? Help us with that work of language and context.
Wesley Towne [00:15:42]:
Well, I mean, obviously, like, he's just, again, he's drawing from the everyday, like, geography of the land. Like, this is an agrarian society. So they understood planting and reaping and sewing and harvest. So he's probably just out there just like, hey, look, look, the harvest is ripe. Or it can be translated bright or white. Yeah. So I think he's just drawing on, like, everyday social scenes, settings, geographical settings as he's walking. That's the brilliance of Jesus.
Wesley Towne [00:16:19]:
Jesus spoke, he understood the language and the illustrations that connected to the culture of his day.
Dena Davidson [00:16:28]:
Yes.
Wesley Towne [00:16:28]:
He was the most brilliant Bible teacher ever. We just need to learn from him.
Dena Davidson [00:16:32]:
Amen.
Wesley Towne [00:16:33]:
So one other thing that I want to point out, one thing that you said when you're noting in verse 34, where he says is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. And you mentioned that's ultimately referring to the cross. John is the only one who notes One of the seven sayings on the cross being John 19:30. It is finished.
Dena Davidson [00:16:55]:
He's the only one who says that
Wesley Towne [00:16:57]:
John's Gospel is the only one. So that's cool. John has this in his language repertoire that Jesus is coming to finish his work. And at the end of John's Gospel, he. That famous statement he quotes of Jesus. John 19:30. It is finished. One word in Greek, tetelestai.
Wesley Towne [00:17:20]:
It is finished. And I just think that's beautiful. So this is the beginning of John talking about the ultimate goal of Jesus completing his work on the cross, which is the pinnacle of his ministry.
Dena Davidson [00:17:33]:
So good.
Wesley Towne [00:17:34]:
One more thing.
Dena Davidson [00:17:35]:
Yes, one more thing.
Wesley Towne [00:17:35]:
One more. Is that okay? One more thing. We have many more things. I had one more thing, but now I have two more things. I think some people don't pause in verse 28, where it says, then leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, she came to the well to get water, but after encountering Jesus, she forgot about the water and went back to her town to evangelize.
Dena Davidson [00:18:07]:
Wow.
Wesley Towne [00:18:08]:
Like, that is a really important part that John adds to this storyline, that the very thing that she went, that she was focused on, that she was doing, she just forgot about it wasn't important anymore. And sometimes when we're redeemed, we're like, in the midst of a lifestyle and we're. There's such a powerful nature to being born again. For the first time in your life, you are. Your soul is made alive to God. You're made alive spiritually. You've been regenerated. The life of the Son of God is in you through the spirit of God, that the things that we were actively doing in that moment of time or in that week or in that season, we just forget about because there's this first time in our life that we are spiritually alive to God.
Wesley Towne [00:19:02]:
And there is such a powerful nature of redemption.
Dena Davidson [00:19:06]:
Yeah.
Wesley Towne [00:19:06]:
And I just want to say that it's. The longer you walk with Christ, the easier it is to forget how powerful that moment was when you encounter Christ for the first time. Which means this. We are less prone to evangelize the longer we are Christians because we forget how transformative that moment of regeneration spiritually was.
Dena Davidson [00:19:35]:
Yeah.
Wesley Towne [00:19:35]:
And we can't forget that. Like, we can't forget that we left the jar behind, whatever that was for you. That old thing in your past, that thing used to do, that thing that you were focused on. And we encountered the son of the living God who redeemed our soul and made us alive spiritually. And then it's like me, when I first came to Jesus, I tried to tell my friends, like, what had happened to me. Like, it was so powerful and so real, this encounter with Jesus and my faith that redeemed my soul and made me alive spiritually. I'd never experienced anything like that in my life up until that point that I had to tell people about it. But the longer that I'm a Christian or the longer we are Christians, we have a proclivity to be less excited to share our faith because we forget how powerful that moment was.
Dena Davidson [00:20:31]:
That's so powerful. I feel like it's. You know, when you've been in the darkness and you walk out into the light and you're like, oh. You know, that's actually more like a painful reaction. But then when you've been in the light for a while, you forget what it's like to be in darkness. You forget the fear. You forget the inability to place yourself and to move without possibly harming yourself. And then you get to the light and you're like, oh, yeah, your eyes jest.
Dena Davidson [00:20:55]:
And I think that that's. That's a good picture of what happens. But she's. She's having that moment where she's walking into the light. Like, she is. She is pumped that she has met someone who not just knew what she did, but didn't judge her on the basis of it, but offered to give her living water. That's why she could leave her jar. She's like, I found something better.
Wesley Towne [00:21:14]:
Way better.
Dena Davidson [00:21:15]:
Yeah. Although I agree with you, I think she just literally forgot.
Wesley Towne [00:21:18]:
Yeah.
Dena Davidson [00:21:18]:
She's like, I got something new to do.
Wesley Towne [00:21:20]:
Redemptive, like, so good. Amazing.
Dena Davidson [00:21:24]:
Okay, so one thought. On the whole harvest section, I think Jesus is putting something important in his disciples because they. Jesus is thinking forward to Pentecost for them. Right. So, like, they've got so long before they get to Pentecost. They're gonna have to go through the crucifixion, the resurrection, but they're gonna get to Pentecost. And he will know that their temptation will be to be like, we are the 11 disciples that made it. Right.
Dena Davidson [00:21:50]:
Like, this is us. And I think Jesus wants them to know, like, hey, you are one part of a big story that God has been telling from creation.
Wesley Towne [00:21:59]:
Yeah, right.
Dena Davidson [00:21:59]:
Like, you are going to reap the harvest at Pentecost, the day of Pentecost and Acts, and what happens after that. You are going to reap this harvest that Isaiah sowed, that Jeremiah sowed, that David sowed, that. That all of the faithful followers, but mostly that God himself has been sowing and bringing about that salvation and that harvest moment. So I think he was sowing, to borrow an analogy, he was sowing something important into them. He was making sure that their perspective as the chosen disciples was not that they were the chosen, but that they were part of God's plan.
Wesley Towne [00:22:37]:
Right.
Dena Davidson [00:22:38]:
And that every person that plays a part is just ultimately a part. Like, it's God's plan and he's the one that brings about the.
Wesley Towne [00:22:45]:
Well said. I also think he wanted them to have gratitude. Like verse 38, I send you to reap what you have not worked for. You didn't do the hard work. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor. I think about us at Bayside, we didn't do the hard work to build this like Ray Ray and Carol did the hard work. Like, they poured in. People don't know.
Wesley Towne [00:23:11]:
They just look at Bayside, thousands of people and all this incredible ministry. And we're, you know, 83 compassion projects, changing the world. But nobody knows the commitment, the faithfulness, the hard work, the disappointments, the discouraging days that went in to what, we get to reap the benefits now.
Dena Davidson [00:23:31]:
Yes.
Wesley Towne [00:23:31]:
And I just think, man, what a cool thing to realize. We get to be a part of this amazing work at Bayside. Like, what God is doing in such, like, powerful ways. And we get to participate in changing people's lives through Christ and through just compassion around the world. Yeah, but we're not the ones who did the hard work. Yeah, we might be working hard now, but we didn't set the foundation to reap. They did.
Dena Davidson [00:23:57]:
Yes.
Wesley Towne [00:23:57]:
And I just think there's. It's important in ministry, the older I get to just have a sense of gratitude for the people who have gone before you, it's so easy to think that, oh, no, I'm the one. Or I'm, like, so special, so gifted. Like, no, you're not. No, I'm not. Like, you're just one part, one tool in the hand of God. But be thankful the people that did the hard work before you, because without them, you wouldn't get to reap what you're reaping now.
Dena Davidson [00:24:28]:
Amen. And I think great motivation for us to study church history.
Wesley Towne [00:24:33]:
Oh, yeah. So good.
Dena Davidson [00:24:34]:
If you never dove in, I. I recommend Church History in plain language by Bruce Shelley, I believe. Incredible. Because what it does is it gives you, first of all, a sense of place in God's redemptive history.
Wesley Towne [00:24:48]:
Yeah.
Dena Davidson [00:24:49]:
But also gratitude. Right. Like, gratitude for the time and the moment that you're living. So seeing all of the faithful saints that have gone before you, like, it literally just gives me chills reading that book, to know I am not the first person to face these problems. Right. Of not caving to culture, of sin in the church. Like, by far, I'm not the first. And I'm getting to reap the harvest of what I had no idea 60 years ago, people were sowing through all of these movements that the spirit of God was doing in the church.
Dena Davidson [00:25:19]:
So 10 out of 10 recommend reading about church history.
Wesley Towne [00:25:22]:
Yes, agree.
Dena Davidson [00:25:24]:
All right, so let's. Let's close this out. Many Samaritans believe. Okay. Like, that's the little scripture heading that's above these verses. I'm going to scroll down to where it says, we no longer believe just because of what you said. Now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the savior of the world. I think we read that verse, Wesley, and we're like, oh, yeah, of course.
Dena Davidson [00:25:49]:
That is who Jesus is. We knew it because we've already read Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Like, by the time you get to John, you know that Jesus is the savior of the world. But think about how little revelation they had about Jesus's identity.
Wesley Towne [00:26:01]:
Yes.
Dena Davidson [00:26:02]:
And they. The Samaritans, the most unexpected, the most heathen of heathens. Right. For the Jewish people, they saw that he was the savior of the world before anyone close to Jerusalem saw it. It's truly incredible. And I. I just love that they. They nailed it.
Dena Davidson [00:26:18]:
Right? Right. Like, yeah, this man really is the savior of the world. And again, John is all about establishing the identity of Jesus. And one of the ways he does it is through people's reactions towards him. And this reaction is like, he puts a. A, yes. And amen you know, like, they saw it really good. Okay, so how can we apply this?
Wesley Towne [00:26:39]:
Yeah, I think my. I mean, there's so many different application points, but one that comes to my mind is an encounter with Jesus is the greatest gift we'll ever receive in our life. You could win the lottery tomorrow. A billion dollars. Play the Powerball. Billion dollars. Some wealthy person could give you their brand new Tesla, and if that happened to you, or some wealthy person could take you on a trip on a private jet, all expenses paid, to Europe for a month and pay your bills. If any of those scenarios happen to you, you would tell everybody close to you.
Wesley Towne [00:27:21]:
Like, you'd be so stoked. You'd be like, I just want a billion dollars a Billy. I don't even know if that's a word, but I just made it up. Or so and so just gave me their brand new Tesla. Or so and so is taking me on a trip to Europe for a month, paying my bills and all expenses paid on their private jet. You would be so stoked to tell people that story because it's, like, such an extravagant gift to you. This is far more. And I just think we've got to remember what we have in Christ, and we've got to tell people about it.
Wesley Towne [00:27:56]:
Like, there are so many people out there in the world, like the Samaritans, who, if we just share our testimony, verse 39, they believed in him. Because of the woman's testimony. They. Nobody can argue with your story. They can argue with what you believe or doctrine or whatever, but not your story of redemption. That is the window into redemption in many people's lives. So go share your story, all of it, the real story, and let people see how God has transformed your life.
Dena Davidson [00:28:27]:
Amen. I love that. And because you stole the definitely most applicable point of this passage, I. I will just put an exclamation point behind. Go read about church history.
Wesley Towne [00:28:38]:
Awesome. Yes, yes, yes.
Dena Davidson [00:28:40]:
The harvest is still happening, Wesley. We are still in the age of the harvest, right? Which is why it's imperative that the workers not just sit on their butts in their church pews and, like, talk about the harvest, but we actually go out and we reap what those before us have sowed and worked for. So go read about church history. Be inspired by faithful believers for generations upon generations. And then, as Wesley called us to do, go join the work to do the harvest.
Wesley Towne [00:29:09]:
Go tell somebody about Jesus.
Dena Davidson [00:29:12]:
Specifically. Specifically, yeah. And in fact, I encourage you, before you shut down this podcast, think of a name. Ask God to put a name of someone that he wants you to share your testimony with. You don't have to be a weirdo. You don't have to be awkward and be like five facts about Jesus. You just need to go and say, hey, I'm not sure I've ever told you what Jesus has done for me and why. Why I love him and why I follow him.
Dena Davidson [00:29:39]:
And it can be short, it can be one minute, but making it an impactful minute. And before you close out this podcast, make sure that you get the name of that person. Yeah, and we can't wait to hear. Hopefully you can actually just put in the chats on this podcast who you shared the gospel with and let's see God bring in a harvest. We'll see you next week for the Bible Study podcast. Make sure to like, share, subscribe, send this out to someone that needs to be deeply convicted about sharing their faith, but mostly invited into being part of the harvest that God wants to bring about. We'll see you next week.