Text: John 2:5 - His mother said to the servants, 'Do whatever he tells you.'

Talk about hang-ups! All you have to do is read this Gospel narrative that was read today, the narrative of the first miracle that Jesus performed, the changing of the water into wine, and you immediately produce two groups that have hang-ups. The first is, of course, made up of pietistic teetotalers. We're confronted by the fact - the undeniable fact - that Jesus provided alcoholic beverage for a party where the supply was running low.

Since most of these teetotalers are also biblical fundamentalists and believe that you must accept the whole Bible verbatim, you see the kind of real hang-up that they have, and the only way out seems to be to prove that Jesus provided grape juice instead of wine. But even their…