Friday, August 08, 2008

New wine needs a new wine skin

As much as I have tried the principles of making disciples who must ALL make disciples will never be realized in the American Church present form. Many attempts across denominational lines to birth a disciple making movement in present structures have failed. These disciple making disciples movements do not and cannot coexist in systems of control such as is evident in the established American Church and or denominations. This move of God must be released from the present American Church or she will release herself. Here I am saying, she has not been released with the blessing of the church - so she must be released to do it without them.

New wine needs a new wine skin. The day for a new free flowing wine skin is now. People in the present American Church were never called to the level of disciple making priority I am suggesting (because God is leading me in this) they never signed on for this and they never will. I should say, some are being called out of the church present to do this work. The remnant is being called out, a new wine skin is being birthed.

Over and over I have witnessed the church clamp down on those who are being called out to make disciples who make disciples. As they express the desire to leave their church they have been labeled "rebellious", "trouble makers", "sowers of discord". But the truth is that God is calling out a remnant to do a new work, a work that requires that we give up everything to be the difference Jesus needs us to be in the world.

The Old wine skin cannot hold us. A new wine skin is needed. The Old and the new cannot coexist in harmony. The old and the new have been called into different things. All are children of God, but these missions collide. You could say in Old Testament terms relevant today, Sarah and Hagar cannot live in the same tent.

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