Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Journal

Please use one of the prompts below to get your journaling started.

  • Recall a significant reaction, conversation or event.

  • Explore your fears and what’s behind them.

  • Write about a relational conflict you are experiencing.

  • List out all that you are grateful for.

Bible Text: Luke 5:33-39 (ESV)

Luke 5:36-39

“Those who like old wine do not try the new, for their minds are already made up: ‘The old is good.’ So Jesus expects many not to respond to his new way. They are comfortable with life and piety as it is. Jesus’ remark is both a description and a warning.”3

  • Why does the new wine need to be poured into a new wineskin?

  • What do the new wine and new wineskins symbolize?  

  • What are some ways in which people try to fit Jesus into their own set ways, and why does that not work?

  • Are there some ways in which I have been resisting God because I am unwilling to radically reorient my entire life?

 

3 Darryll L. Bock, Luke, NIV Application Commentary Series, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1996) 170-171.