Hope Live | Our Vision Series | John 4:1-38 | Jamie Haxby

Loneliness. Debt. Mental health. Housing. These are the four biggest needs presenting in Lancaster right now, according to local community data. And they're not just social problems. They're symptoms of something deeper — a spiritual hunger and thirst that no amount of Netflix, online shopping, relationships, or achievement can ever fully satisfy.

In this opening message of the vision series, Jamie takes us to one of the most tender encounters in all of the Gospels — Jesus and a Samaritan woman at Jacob's well. She came alone, at noon, for water. She left without her water jar — because she'd found something so much better she simply forgot it was there.

Drawing on the Old Testament significance of wells as places of romance and meeting, Jamie unpacks a beautiful and often-missed detail in John 4: Jesus is portrayed as the seventh man in this woman's life. And in a Bible where seven is the number of completeness and perfection, that's not an accident. This is John telling us something extraordinary — that Jesus comes to us as the perfect bridegroom, in the middle of our pain and our shame and our cycles of running back to the same dry wells, and says: whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst again.

This is also a message about vision. What would it look like for a church to have the same reputation as Jacob's well — a place people say, if you want to meet the bridegroom, go there? And what would it take to dig that well deep enough that it overflows into a city?

Featuring a stunning anonymous testimony from someone who walked past a church called Hope and walked in, and the words of Augustine — our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you — this is a message for anyone who is tired of drinking from wells that run dry.

Key themes: John 4 · the woman at the well · living water · cycles of addiction · spiritual hunger · Lancaster's needs · Jesus as bridegroom · revival · vision · Augustine · communion

06/09/2026

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