A new pastor comes into a parish, "his parish" as he often calls it from day one. He wants to introduce "new wine," that is, new ways of doing things, his style and brand of church. Luke 5: 35-39 comes into play. Introduce new wine into the old wineskins, the present congregation, will cause a bursting at the seams, an up raw. All is a mess. Father New Wine stays, and the old wine skins leave, or enough of them are replaced by new people who like the new ways, the new wine. The Dispersed old guard go off and say, "The old is good." Old and New are a difficult but not impossible mix, but it never does mix if one guy holds all the power.
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