LIFE GROUPS WEEK 5 – FALL 2025
LIFE GROUPS – WEEK 5
FULL SERMON – 39 MINUTES
ICE BREAKER:
Share a time when something in your life lost its joy or momentum, and God surprised you with renewal or hope.
SCRIPTURE:
John 2:1-11 NIV
2 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, 2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”
4 “Woman why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”
5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
6 Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.
7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.
8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”
They did so, 9 and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside 10 and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”
11 What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
KEEP IT UNCOMPLICATED:
Read John 2:1-11 NIV together and share observations.
Also read John 10:10 NIV:
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”
Observation Questions
- Why do you think Jesus chose a wedding for His first miracle, and what does that setting tell us about the kind of God He is?
- What do Mary’s words, “They have no more wine,” reveal about her faith and her understanding of Jesus’ heart?
- Why does John mention the six stone jars used for ceremonial washing? What could that detail tell us about what’s being replaced or fulfilled?
Understanding Questions
- What do you think the servants filling the jars “to the brim” in verse 7 might teach us about obeying the commands of Jesus?
- Why might Jesus have made the wine “the best” instead of to the same quality as the wine served?
- The wine represents celebration and joy in Jewish culture. How might Jesus be showing that He brings a deeper, lasting kind of joy?
- Only the servants and the disciples knew the source of the new wine. What does that teach us about how joy and revelation are often connected to quiet obedience?
Application Questions
- Is there an are in your life where the “wine” has run out? Where joy, peace, or purpose feel empty — and how might Jesus want to refill that place?
- Like the servants who filled the jars, what act of simple obedience could open the door for God to do something new in you this week?
Pray together, inviting God to do a new miracle in our lives.
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