As people called into life through our baptism, this gathered community claims its baptismal identity in Christ who defeats sin, death, and the devil and gives us new life. In these living waters we are claimed by God, marked with the cross of Christ and sealed with the Holy Spirit. We live out our baptismal identity in service to Jesus Christ to love God and to love our neighbors as ourselves.

In John 4:10 and 13, Jesus says, I will give you living water the water I give you will become in you a spring of water welling up to eternal life.  This living water drowns our sin, washes us clean, and raises us to live for Christ in newness of life, as a new creation, not living for ourselves but for the sake of our neighbors who need to hear and experience the life giving words of hope, peace, forgiveness, and salvation offered freely through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.   

¹⁰Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." 

                                                           --John 4:10 NIV

(taken from www.biblegateway.com )