New Wineskins (Young Adult Ministry)
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“Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; if it is, 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.”
-Matthew 9:17
"The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases,his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning"
-Lamentations 3:22-23
"And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit."
-2 Corinthians 3:18
As Christians, we are constantly called to become new wineskins to receive fresh, new outpourings of God's never ending grace!! He always has ever more and MORE of Himself to give us. This is how we become more and more like Jesus, growing from glory to glory in His image and likeness! This is how we become SAINTS!!
This fresh outpouring happens every morning, even every moment of our lives. Fulton Sheen said, "Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose... Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it." This fresh outpouring also happens from generation to generation - each new generation called according to His purpose for a particular time on earth. We're devoted to empowering young adults to become new wineskins over and over again in their personal relationship with God, and so to become saints. We're also devoted to empowering this whole generation to become a new wineskin for this particular time in Church history. You were made for this time, we were made for this time!!
Come, Holy Spirit, make us new wineskins, ready to receive a fresh outpouring of Your grace every generation, every morning, and every moment of our life with You!!
In Jesus' name, amen!
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Patrons -- King David and Mary Magdalene
Our two patrons of this ministry are King David and Mary Magdalene (the woman with the alabaster jar). We look to them as witnesses of how to live heroic lives poured out totally in love for our Lord, in response to Him pouring Himself out totally in love for us!King David and Mary Magdalene, pray for us, that we can heroically enter into this divine dance of receiving God poured out and pouring ourselves out back to Him!!
GOD'S STORY
"Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
-Philippians 2:5-11
MARY MAGDALENE'S STORY"And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. But there were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment thus wasted? For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.” And they reproached her. But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you will, you can do good to them; but you will not always have me. She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burying. And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”
-Mark 14:3-9
DAVID'S STORY
"So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of O′bed-e′dom to the city of David with rejoicing; and when those who bore the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling. And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod. So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the horn.
As the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window, and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart. And they brought in the ark of the Lord, and set it in its place, inside the tent which David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts, and distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, to each a cake of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins. Then all the people departed, each to his house.
And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants’ maids, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!” And David said to Michal, “It was before the Lord, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me as prince over Israel, the people of the Lord—and I will make merry before the Lord. I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your eyes; but by the maids of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor.”
-2 Samuel 6:12-22