Category: Endorsements for New Wine

My participation in New Wine taught me that to love Jesus is to love the people He loves. As a result of His call, my family left a wonderful home, neighborhood, community, church, and a successful medical practice to serve hurting and broken young men and women at His Mansion Ministries in Deering, New Hampshire. God used New Wine to transform my heart, my relationships, and my life work, and I am ever thankful for my season with Dr. Metzger and all my brothers and sisters at New Wine and Multnomah University.

New Wine’s events provoke significant thought on key issues in our culture. I always come away challenged to think more deeply and more Christianly. The events dealing with the problems of racialization in our culture and in our churches have been especially helpful, inviting us to move beyond shallow analysis and band-aid solutions. If you want to grapple with tough and insight-yielding questions, come to a New Wine event. You won’t be disappointed.

Theology—in order to be biblical theology—must be a living force. New Wine, New Wineskins introduces men and women to real theology by applying it to 21st century culture and to issues Christians often avoid. A drink from a New Wine event will create a thirst for contextualized theology.

As the culture of the church becomes increasingly foreign and, thus, unable to communicate to my community, New Wine, New Wineskins has emerged as a place where I’ve been greatly helped in better communicating the gospel in ways that make sense to my colleagues as well as to my next door neighbors. One of New Wine, New Wineskins’ great strengths is its emphasis on the contextualized integration of our faith and practice in our workplaces and neighborhoods—which is the responsibility of Jesus’ followers faced with the dire needs of the day in our dying communities.

The Lord is using New Wine, New Wineskins in a powerful way to call his people to a more holistic, outwardly focused, Christ-like lifestyle. Their emphasis on engaging society in a loving and contextual manner has already been effective in moving many believers out of the four walls of the church and into redemptive relationships with people who would never darken the doorstep of a church building. I know that anyone who attends a New Wine, New Wineskins event will come away better equipped to love and serve people in our society to Christ.