"And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed." (5:37)
I can't help seeing the parallels in this verse and the ones surrounding it and the future of Faith Lutheran (or the ELCA!). One might read this as "you can't teach an old dog new tricks," but I think that the metaphor can be more directly translated in that WE are vessels of Gods work. We can either choose to be old and resistant or we can choose to be loose and willing to change and grow. And yet, we must acknowledge that there are some that will be content with the "old wine" and in the context of the church (and maybe to some extent in these Gospels?) these people are the ones who keep us grounded and real.
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