Worship: From Place to Posture.

The meeting between Jesus and the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well in Sychar is both historical and futuristic. It’s a conversation packed with revelation, and if we’re not careful, we might read right past the treasure hidden within it.


First, there’s a hungry man and a thirsty woman. Yet by the end of the story, the hungry man doesn’t eat, and the thirsty woman doesn’t drink. It’s a funny tale with a faithful lesson.


Then the conversation shifts to matters of worship — men seeking a place to worship from, versus a God seeking a people to worship Him. This begins in the past but stretches into the present-future in one powerful statement from Jesus.


He said, “Yet a time is coming (future) and has now come (present) when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.”


In simple terms, it’s not about the place of worship but the posture of worship. It’s not about structures but about Spirit.


The Samaritans felt they had worshipped when they did it at the mountain or while facing the mountain. The Jews felt the same when they journeyed to Jerusalem or worshipped while facing it. Remember Daniel opening his windows toward Jerusalem to pray?


Jesus announced that the shift from place to posture had begun that very day when He met the woman at the well. She got it. Her life was transformed, her mindset renewed, and she passed that truth to her community.


This is why the early Church fellowships met in homes, by riversides, under trees — anywhere could become a place of worship. All you needed was to be in the Spirit and have knowledge of the truth. Worship was living, fluid, and led by the Spirit.


Slowly though, believers have reversed the order. Worship has gone back to being about a place — about buildings and stages.


As I was reading that portion of Scripture a few years ago, the Lord pointed out that we’ve shifted from Spirit and truth to songs and tunes. This year, He added more: we’ve added structures and tents, systems of men and timelines.


No longer are many worship services led by the Spirit but by songs. No longer is worship about the posture of the heart but the location of the body. Fewer Christians have knowledge of the truth, and many only believe what they want to believe.


I am still studying, but I’m convinced we need to go back — all of us.

Be filled with the Spirit and grounded in the truth, and your worship will be both Spirit-led and truth-based.


Whether there’s a song or not, you’ll still worship.

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