Reimagines and Expands

Jesus does not replace. Jesus reimagines and expands, inviting an alternative and often innovative reading of Jewish tradition. 

-- Diana Butler Bass

So, IF Jesus were here today (but, he is, isn't he?), what would this mean for those who are trying so hard to hold on to the old?

Bass' observation is so freeing; not disregarding, but expanding...something that takes imagination— even to see something timeless (and, therefore, both new and old at the same time).

There is, after all, nothing to fear with what appears to be new, especially with the perspective that Jesus had (which His whole imagery around wineskins reveals)..