New Wine, New Wineskins Forum on Community Economic Development

8435 NE Glisan St,Portland OR 97220

27 October, 2021

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We at New Wine, New Wineskins at Multnomah University & Seminary would love for you to join us for a forum on Community Economic Development The New Wine, New Wineskins' forum on Community Economic Development features Dr. David Kresta and his recently published volume titled, Jesus on Main Street: Good News Through Community Economic Development (Cascade, 2021), which emerges from his PhD research in urban studies at PSU. We are passionate about this subject and the import of it for gentrified Portland. Dr. Kresta will give a brief presentation, which will be followed by responses from a highly knowledgeable and experienced group of panelists. The forum includes breakfast and runs for two hours (8-10AM). If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Elizabeth Grinko at [email protected]. Visit us at www.new-wineskins.org.  At The Institute for Cultural Engagement: New Wine, New Winekesins, we build relational bridges through Jesus. While speaking out against the status quo of his day, Jesus referred to himself, his message, and its recipients as new wine poured out into new wineskins: Jesus was scandalous and intoxicating. "No one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out, and the wineskins will be ruined. No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins." – Luke 5:37-38 Jesus is still scandalous and intoxicating. The problem is that we who claim to follow him—no matter our status or stage in life—are so prone to pour the new wine of his life and word into the old rotten skins of “Churchianity” that cannot contain it, ruining both in the process.