This adoration and devotion to God the Father, in spirit and in truth, was already pointed out in the Old Testament in many passages. It appears in the Ten Commandments.
It is natural that on these dates of Holy Week people ask themselves about the way in which the Evangelical Church remembers the central events of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. What kind of worship or devotion do we give to God on these dates? From the outset, as many already know, it is necessary to remember that, for evangelicals, everything we believe or do is exclusively based on the teaching of the Word of God, the Bible. And this for two incontestable facts. In the first place, because only the Bible is the Word of God (2ª Epistle to Timothy 3: 14-16). Secondly because it is also evident that the Bible is the oldest and most prestigious authority in Christianity. Any other tradition is more "modern" than the Bible. Therefore, what we do or do not do at this time is because of the subjection of our conscience to the teaching of the Bible.
In this sense, a fundamental passage at the moment of understanding the adoration that God expects from his people at all times is the one in which Jesus spoke with the Samaritan woman. This conversation is only found in chapter 4 of the Gospel of John. In the course of it, our Lord Jesus Christ showed this woman the manner in which God was to be worshiped: "But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth; because also the Father such worshipers seek to worship him. God is Spirit; and those who worship him, in spirit and in truth, they must worship "(Gospel of John 4: 23-24). From the outset, Jesus, through the expression "but the hour is coming, and now it is", is telling the Samaritan woman that her coming into this world inaugurates a new time. This woman had wanted to enter into a religious controversy with Christ about where God should be worshiped. The Jews said that in Jerusalem, the Samaritans were on Mount Gerizim (see verses 20-22). Jesus, on the contrary, affirms that his coming introduces a new epoch in which the place of worship does not matter, but the attitude of the person before God. God and Christ are everywhere where two or three are gathered in his name (Gospel of Matthew 18:20). Note also that, according to Jesus, the worship of God depends, if I can express it, on the type of being that God is. God is, says Jesus, Spirit and, therefore, the adoration due to his name, the only adoration he wants to receive, is spiritual: "God is Spirit; and those who adore him, in spirit and in truth, they must adore, "reiterates Jesus. Therefore, the adoration of the Father is spiritual and internal. It is in the spirit and, moreover, through the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, invisible, but that we receive, according to the words of Jesus himself, exclusively through faith in Him (Gospel of John 7:39). It is also an adoration and devotion that should only be surrendered to God the Father. And this worship can only be given in the truth. That is, it must be in harmony with the revelation that God has made of himself in his Word. It is Jesus himself who says it: "Your Word is truth" (Gospel of John 17:17). And this implies that we only approach God by the truth revealed in the pages of the Holy Scriptures. A truth that must be understood. A truth that is also a Person, that of the Son of God. Jesus said: "I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me" (Gospel of John 14: 6).
