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The Institute for the Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins is at the cutting edge of today’s holistic ministry movement. And because it’s connected to a Bible College and Seminary, it’s in a great position to challenge future leaders. I am highly impressed.

New Wine, New Wineskins challenges the hearts of those who follow Christ. Under the guidance of Dr. Paul Metzger, New Wine’s challenging and eye-opening events prove the point–-it isn’t easy to love our neighbors, especially ‘in Jesus’ name.’ It isn’t easy, but with clarity and verve New Wine, New Wineskins reminds us that it is essential.

The Institute for the Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins under the leadership of Dr. Paul Metzger is fulfilling its motto of “Bringing Christ to Contemporary Culture.” New Wine, New Wineskins exists to help us engage our multicultural world with the unchanging truths of Scripture without fear or compromise. Through our growing partnership, I have already seen the positive spiritual benefits of sharing our cultural and worldview perspectives between First Nations and non-Native peoples. As our worldview assumptions are challenged in a biblical and Christ-honoring way, we become better equipped to present Christ and his kingdom effectively in a rapidly, radically changing multi-ethnic world. New Wine, New Wineskins is a tremendous resource in the body of Christ.

Under the leadership of Dr. Paul L. Metzger, this provocative ministry through such forums as “Blue-Eyed” and “Evangelical Environmentalism: Oxymoron or Opportunity” attempts to contextualize Christ’s relevance in contemporary culture. Christians—especially in the academy and institutions of higher learning—must seek to make intellectual musings empirical. Without a doubt, I have found that New Wine, New Wineskins does just that. I am very confident that the message of the Gospel will find its relevance not only in culture, but also in the life of those who are touched by the work of New Wine, New Wineskins.

New Wine, New Wineskins offers an important opportunity for the best of social science and theology to come together to address a few of the most vexing issues facing the church in our time. New Wine, New Wineskins helps us worship God with the mind, confronts us with the uncomfortable, and helps us resolve the tensions between Christ and culture. A welcome opportunity for someone like myself, who is dedicated to the Word but is called to the public university and not the pulpit.