New wine, new wineskins

Morning: Psalms 40, 54; Genesis 40:1-23; I Corinthians 3:16-23

Evening: Psalm 51; Mark 2:13-22

Jesus’s followers are often assumed to be moralists.  People project this assumption onto me – a priest – and try to protect me from bad behaviour, even their own.  Do they imagine it will offend me?  Think about it … Jesus always keeps company with ‘bad actors’.  How does the idea get about that only righteous folk can be his followers?  In his new order of things, all are welcome, no exceptions.  To use Jesus’s own metaphor, his new order blows open your mind the way new wine bursts old wineskins … if you quit misunderstanding and really listen to him.