Sermon
Mercy Toward the Misunderstood
Center Church
Speaker: Curtis Andrusko, with Josh Miller
June 7, 2026 · 45 min
Summary
Jesus encounters a Samaritan woman at a well and offers her living water—eternal life and spiritual fulfillment. Through confronting her sin with compassion, Jesus reveals that mercy moves toward the avoided, sees beneath the surface, and transforms outcasts into witnesses of God's love.
Highlights
Mercy refuses to reduce people to the worst thing they've done or the worst thing that's ever been done to them.
You are not your past, you are not your sins, you are not your mistakes, you are not what's been done to you—you are created by God, you are loved by God, you are offered eternal life by God, and then you are set forth on mission by God.
If we have truly received mercy from Jesus, we cannot be people who move away from those suffering. We move toward them. It's what mercy does.