Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Matthew chapter 9 verses 16 and 17:
16No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak, for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear is made. 17Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.
The old forms of are giving way.
We live in a moment of tremendous change. Old forms of religion are giving way to new discoveries in the sciences, new voices previously silenced and marginalized, and new forms communication and collaboration which make old forms of organization and authority irrelevant and obsolete. In the last 100 years we have shifted from who are we are as individuals in the local village to who we are in the global village. Our primary identities as persons have shifted from that of biological, familial, and geographical to now universal, ideological, and ethereal. In other words, in the last century we have gone from a people of the earth to a people in the Cloud.
The times they are a changin’.
Religion which does not adapt, reform, and repent (literally “think again”) will not make this transition. It will be an old wineskin in a world of new wine, an old and worn coat in a brave, new world.
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