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April

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Don't try to fit Jesus into religious structures

Jesus taught that his followers that their way of being doesn't fit into religious structures.
Matthew 9:14-17 14 Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?" 15 And Jesus said to them, "The wedding guests cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. 16 No 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. 17 Neither 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."

Do we ignore Jesus' teaching that his way of being doesn't fit into religious structures?

Note: Jesus could not (and can not) be patched (or poured) into religious structures. Jesus was (is) inaugurating a new kingdom (an entirely new way of being); to try to incorporate him into religion only succeeds in ripping both apart.

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