Our care is forced to be decentralized, our services digitized, our frequency daily…everyone is upping their game, in a good way. But what if Jesus wants a new wineskin?īefore COVID there have been a group of different ministry models that have emerged challenging the status quo, each one taking on those assumptions in their own way and trying to address the new reality we find ourselves in.Įvery single model was forced to pivot into something they never talked about in their annual planning meetings.Ī new ministry model is forming, one that is unifying across denomination, creed, and network.
That cultural environment has been no longer for a while now, yet the prevailing model on ministry assumes that it’s still true or should at least be brought back so that local churches can flourish. One that our fathers and grandfathers lived in that thought nothing of stopping all the week’s activities to go the church building to hear something from a pastor they could hear nowhere else while enjoying the rich relationships from intact families, decades long work friendships, and a social fabric built on stability, shared experiences, and lots of hugs.
The prevailing ministry model assumed a certain content scarce, relationally rich environment. He talked of new wine brewing and it begs for a new wineskin. This is nothing new from Jesus, the one who is building the Church right now. With COVID rising at the same rate of the stay-at-home order, there’s something unexpected that’s also rising in the Church.
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