Bust a Wine Skin

The passage in Matt 5 regarding wine skins (Mt 5:36-39 to be precise) has a lot to do with our situation. In the history of the expansion of Christianity all kinds of new stuff had to be created because advancing the gospel appropriately would not fit into what was currently being done. Some of the old stuff passed away (tent revival anyone?) and some stuff stayed and continued to be effective in many categories (evangelistic literature). But new stuff is always being created in order to see the mission advance. Who was the first guy to think of a youth group? That aint in the Bible! . . . but it was a pretty cool new wine skin at one time. So what are ours? Especially when it comes to reaching students - particularly ethnic students on campus. We need some new stuff and we need to be bold creative and wild as we try and figure it out. What we need to see is not simply contextualization of what we currently do, but a full on incarnation of the gospel into ethnic contexts. In order to do this we cannot be business as usual. We need bold leaders moving in categories that are not simple and easy to create a future we know not of right now.