"And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.”
I believe God is taking Christ’s Church through transition
from old wineskins to new. The models
and structures of church as we have known it might just continue to fade,
making way for a whole host of innovative ways that God wants to send his
people out to lovingly engage their neighbor and incarnate the Gospel.
A friend of mine is leaving a position at our church to go full time into property management. His boss is investing in real estate and is buying up properties with the intent to be a just and responsible landlord and to help physically create and restore affordable living spaces for many who are lower-income in our community. His motives? I hope and believe Christ is motivating him to be a good steward of his gifts and resources, to meet real felt needs in our community, to work toward just rental practices, and to be a light and witness for Christ through all of it. This is just one example of a new wineskin... of being the Church where we live and work.
What about you? God has some new wineskins for all of us if we dare pray, dream, follow..
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