Rich Dixon thought about Jesus’ metaphor of pouring new wine into old wineskins.
Of course, we have no clue what Jesus was picturing. What the heck is a wineskin? You mean they were allowed to drink wine back then?
Rich transformed the thinking from first to twenty-first century language.
It’s tempting to cram Jesus’ teaching into our old ways of thinking.
For a math teacher, I think he nailed it.
Can we think of times someone has tried to persuade us that their old way of thinking actually reflected what Jesus taught? I hope we haven’t fallen victim to reinterpreting Jesus to suit our own politics or prejudices. That would be a huge loss.
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