17 Luke 5:33-39 (Weddings and wine skins)

I. Background and big idea
Mission over tradition
II. Narrative
1. The second complaint (5:33)
2. Jesus’s first response: the wedding metaphor (5:34-35)
Isaiah 53:7-8
3. Jesus’s second response: the shrunken cloth metaphor (5:36)
4. Jesus’s third response: the wine skin metaphor (5:37-39)
III. Mission over tradition
1. The message does not change (the new wine)
2. The structure needs to change as the world changes (new wine skins)
a. Recognize the state of local churches in the US
(1.) Autopsy of a deceased church
(2.) Recent and significant changes to ministry
b. Cut structures that don’t push the agenda
c. Create structures that will enable the mission
1 Chronicles 12:12, 32
d. Elevation mission over tradition