{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"#286 - Does YWAM need a new wine skins?","description":"Lynn Green returns to Jesus's wineskin parable (Luke 5, 37) to ask a pointed question: does YWAM need new structural wineskins for the moves of God happening now? Drawing on stories spanning fifty years \u2014 a 1970 Iowa revival with no church to catch it, unreached Papua New Guinea and Amazon tribes, West London street kids, and the rise and painful fracture of the shepherding movement \u2014 he argues new moves of God almost always need new containers, but warns against two specific temptations: planting YWAM's own churches, and paying staff outside the mission's values. Chapters: \u25b6\ufe0f (00:00:00) \u2014 What the Parable Actually Means Lynn unpacks Luke 5, 37's wine-and-wineskins image using his own home-brewing mishap for illustration, then explains the underlying principle: fermenting new wine (a genuine move of God) will always burst rigid old wineskins (established structures), while Jesus's added line \u2014 "no one who's tasted the old wants the new" \u2014 explains the natural generational resistance that follows. \u25b6\ufe0f (00:08:23) \u2014 New Moves Need New Containers: Case Studies A tour of moments where existing structures couldn't hold what God was doing \u2014 a 1970 youth revival in a small Iowa town with no church built to receive 300 new believers, waves of West African and Caribbean immigration reshaping British church demographics, refugee ministries born from the Vietnamese boat-people crisis, and Don Richardson's unreached Papua New Guinea and Amazon tribes building entirely indigenous wineskins for their new faith. \u25b6\ufe0f (00:24:10) \u2014 Lessons from YWAM's Own Church-Planting Attempts Lynn recounts YWAM's own history of trying (and largely failing) to plant churches directly, alongside the more painful story of the 1970s\u201380s charismatic renewal and shepherding movement \u2014 which began as an interdenominational "stay and be salt and light" renewal but eventually hardened into its own hierarchical denomination, fracturing trust when it did. \u25b6\ufe0f (00:32:01) \u2014 Where YWAM Draws the Line Today Closing principles for staying flexible without losing YWAM's identity: the mission actively lets fruitful ministries become independent "new wineskins" when that's their calling, but holds firm on two boundaries \u2014 not planting its own churches, and not paying full-time workers outside its values \u2014 while staying alert to when a new structure is a genuine new wineskin versus a "Trojan horse." \u2022 \u2022 ** This is a personal podcast and reflects my thoughts and convictions. It does not represent any official position held by Youth with A Mission.** website - https:\/\/lynngreen.blog Facebook - https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100063522648400 Youtube - https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MrCLynnGreen ","author_name":"Thoughts from a Resident Alien","author_url":"https:\/\/lynngreen.blog","html":"