This Life Group season runs from April 12-May 30, 2026.
- In response to Jesus’ words about eating his flesh and drinking his blood (John 6:51-58) some of his disciples fell away. The text indicates it is from expectations unfulfilled that they fell away. Read John 6:26-27. What is Jesus’ main point here?
- Work is good, not bad. How can a person work a way that glorifies God?
- Work is good but can bring deception. How can a person be deceived into thinking earthly earnings are on par with eternal life?
- Name some times in life where God has exceeded your expectations. How have you thanked God for those moments?
- Peter and the disciples didn’t always understand what Jesus was doing/saying, but they stayed with him. Peter says it well in John 6:68. What words and actions of Jesus give you the most encouragement to continue to follow him?
Referenced this Sunday
From Augustine’s sermon on the feeding of the five thousand.
It was a great miracle that was wrought, dearly beloved, for five thousand men to be filled with five loaves and two fishes, and the remnants of the fragments to fill twelve baskets. A great miracle: but we shall not wonder much at what was done, if we give heed to Him That did it. He multiplied the five loaves in the hands of them that brake them, Who multiplieth the seeds that grow in the earth, so as that a few grains are sown, and whole barns are filled. But, because He doth this every year, no one marvels. Not the inconsiderableness of what is done, but its constancy takes away admiration of it.
Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament, vol. 2, A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church, Anterior to the Division of the East and West (Oxford; London: John Henry Parker; J. G. F. and J. Rivington; J. and F. Rivington, 1844–1845), 580.