The organization’s culture, more than any other factor, determines the results the organization achieves. The culture is determined, consciously or unconsciously, by executive leadership-sometimes by just one dominant leader. If you make yourself the exception, forget the transformation.”Įvery organization has an organizational culture. To me it is, and yet such thinking is common: everything in this organization should change, except me. 1995) pointed out the need for personal change: “Isn’t it ludicrous to think that you could transform a culture without having the individuals change. Writing to executive leaders, Stephen Covey (Executive Excellence, Dec. If your so-called subordinates see your leadership behavior as autocratic and coercive rather than supportive and serving, you still don’t know servant-leadership! Servant-leadership is something you can’t fully know until you actually live it! Dare to solicit some feedback from those who work for you. It involves heart knowledge! It means shifting your own paradigms and beginning to walk the talk. Knowing servant leadership involves more than head knowledge. You can know about servant-leadership and yet not really know servant leadership. Talking servant-leadership doesn’t make it so! You can learn all the buzzwords and jargon, yet not be a servant-leader. What can this parable teach us today? Are there leaders in the year 2001 trying to put new wine in old wineskins? I suggest that when we try to establish a new leadership paradigm (such as servant-leadership) within an organization without first addressing the need for a compatible organizational culture, we are pouring new wine into old wineskins. Thus both the new wine and the bottle would be lost. On the other hand, if old leather bottles, which had been subject to decay, were used, the wineskins would often burst from the action of the fermenting wine.
As the new wine fermented, the new leather was capable of expanding and remaining intact. In biblical times new wine was stored in strong, new leather bottles. In the case of the Pharisees, they were consumed with their own self-righteousness, and faith in Jesus cannot be combined with self-righteous rituals.A familiar parable is that of putting new wine in old wineskins. Jesus cannot be added to a works-based religion. As mentioned earlier, Jesus fulfilled the law therefore, there is no longer any need to continue with the old rituals. Jesus’ disciples were not fasting along with the Pharisees and John’s disciples because they were now under the new covenant of grace and faith in Christ. These two parables illustrate the fact that you can’t mix old religious rituals with new faith in Jesus. An old wineskin will burst under the pressure of new wine. Similarly, new wine needs a new wineskin because as the new wine expands during the fermentation process, it stretches the wineskin.
#New wine in old wineskin Patch
In the first parable, if you put a new patch on an old garment, when the new patch shrinks due to washing, it will tear away from the older garment, making the tear worse. The first one says you don’t put a new patch on an old garment, and the second says you don’t put new wine into an old wineskin. The other two parables, which are similar, make the same point. To continue fasting with Jesus present is akin to fasting and being mournful during a wedding celebration in which the groom is present. Jesus Himself said that He came to fulfill the law (Matthew 5:17). In this story Jesus is the Bridegroom, and while He is present in this world, it is a time of celebration because He is the fulfillment of their Messianic prophecies. Jesus’ point is that fasting during the wedding feast is pointless. The first one is a parable of a bridegroom with his groomsmen at a wedding feast. Jesus’ response is given in three short parables. Some people came to Jesus and asked Him why His disciples did not fast like the Pharisees and those of John’s disciples who had remained loyal to the Pharisaic traditions. The twice-weekly fast was a tradition adopted by the legalistic Pharisees at the time, even though the Mosaic Law prescribed only one fast on the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16:29, 31). These parables, found in Mark 2:18-22, begin with a statement that the Pharisees and the disciples of John the Baptist were fasting.
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