Throughout Jesus' earthly ministry He often deviated from the established religious norms and spent time with those He wasn't supposed to. John's fourth chapter depicts two of those meetings when Jesus sits and talks with a Samaritan woman as well as when He heals the officials son.
For Jews in general, going through Samaria was taboo, but for a rabbi like Jesus to not only go through Samaria but also sit and talk with a single lady was unheard of. Jesus risked His reputation by sitting and talking to this Samaritan woman, as evidenced by the disciples reaction when they found Him. The cultural norms of human interaction, simply didn't keep Jesus from doing what He knew to be the work and mission of God.
So what work and mission does God have for us? And what cultural human norms keep us from actually accomplishing what God has put us on the earth to do?
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