Jesus’ parables of the new patch on old cloth and new wine in fresh wineskins seem to support the need for institutional change as new approaches and energies are poured into the life of the church.

In Mark 2:22, Jesus provides a strategy for addressing this habit of missing the mark year after year: “And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins ...

"People do not put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the skins bursts, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined. Rather, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved." ...

The church is about to serve “new wine” in new wineskins instead of old wine in old wineskins or containers. Before leaving this passage I want to address the concept of saving the cluster ...

"And who would use old wineskins to store new wine? For the old wine skins would ... Just patching up the old, slapping on a coat of paint or turning over a new leaf, won't cut it.

The early Western church maintained the custom of wine and unleavened bread. The Eastern church soon began to use leavened bread, seeing the leaven as a symbol of new life in Christ. In the West ...

I wonder if they’re not trying to pour new wine into old wineskins, biblically speaking. The denomination’s move comes at a time when I’ve been reading about racial reconciliation.

That’s the lesson we can learn from what Christ said about new wine to be put always on new wineskins, not old, and not to put a patch from a new garment on an old one. (cfr. Lk 5,36-38 ...

Ghana can’t be any progressive with our outmoded thoughts! You can’t put new wine into old wineskins. They wineskins would rupture! Change is impossible if we keep on doing same old things.