We must recognize the limitations of how much the wineskin of our image of God is modeled after the way we experience society and modeled after social structures in times past.
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We must not pour the wine of the Good News that we are ALL one, into the old skin of a “perfect secular society“. Jesus’ life, teaching, death, and resurrection all point to a more accurate and detailed image of God modeled by Jesus. Sadly, for many, we have so emphasized Jesus as God that we lose sight of Jesus’ Father and Spirit. We are called to imitate God in whose and image and likeness we are made. God is a community of persons in whose image and likeness we are made. This image represents a new way of thinking about God. I never connected the image of God as a community of persons with the “new wineskins”.
A community of persons.Īlmost the very last words of the New Testament emphasize “And the One seated on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” Jesus spoke of his Father and his Spirit. The author of the Hebrews began by saying that in these latest times the Word of God was best revealed in the person of Jesus the Christ. This was a new mindset in comparison to gods made of clay or aspects of nature. They saw themselves as “the chosen” people of this all-powerful ruler. The Jewish people did get a bit beyond their secular neighbors. This God would love them if they kept the commandments. This God’s ten commandments summed up our place in relationship to God.īy the time of Jesus, the ten had officially become 613 laws with thousands of interpretations. God was a powerful ruler whose name could not even be spoken. Powerful rulers were at the top of the social pyramid and held power over their lives. In many ways, we are still using an Old Testament image of God drawn from their observations of the world they lived in. In this Vincentian Mindwalk, I share thoughts about the wineskins or frameworks of our thinking about God. Mindsets, sometimes called “mental frameworks”, are the containers of our way of looking at the world.
Three days later I finally made the connection with something else I have wrestled with recently – “mindsets”. I have heard the passage before but was never “haunted” by it Rather, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.” Mt 9:16 Otherwise the skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined. People do not put new wine into old wineskins. I kept thinking of Jesus’ image of the “new wineskins” in last Saturday’s Gospel. In this case, it wasn’t a tune or the lyrics of a song. Some use this as shorthand for not being able to get a tune out of one’s head. This past weekend I experienced a bit of what is sometimes called an “earworm”.
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