Podcast
What is Worship? Jesus Explains with Hank
Dial In with Jonny Ardavanis
Speaker: Jonny Ardavanis, with Hank
June 2, 2026 · 27 min
Summary
Jesus encounters a Samaritan woman at a well and reveals her sin while offering her living water—salvation through himself. He teaches that true worship must be both in spirit (wholehearted passion) and in truth (grounded in God's word), not one or the other. The woman becomes the first evangelist in John's gospel, demonstrating that authentic encounter with God produces worship and transforms even the most broken into witnesses.
Highlights
How you feel in worship is less important than how God feels about our worship, and he wants it to be in spirit and truth.
No one encounters God without encountering the truth, both at the corporate level and the personal level.
Before this woman can ever experience the water that Jesus is offering, she must first be confronted and convicted and repentant over her sin.