Worship Beyond the Walls

When Jesus told the Samaritan woman that true worshipers would worship the Father "in spirit and truth," He was dismantling the very boundaries that kept people separated from God — and from each other. The temple in Jerusalem and the mountain in Samaria were both rendered insufficient. Something wider was breaking through. Rachel Held Evans once wrote about finding God in the most unexpected congregations — in a church that met in a bar, where a transgender woman read the Gospel aloud and a retired veteran passed the bread.…