The Complete Wineskin: Restructuring the Church for the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit Book

If i could give this a 10 out of 5, i would. this book is incredible. easily one of the most visionary books on giftings, annointings, and offices of the Church. of course, almost everything that Eberle writes and teaches has an edge to it that will challenge your beliefs in some way--but in the best way possible. in this book, he goes to the Word and sees how the book of Acts and Paul's writings described the structure of the Church. typical churches today are led by a pastor who does most of the work, but Paul talked about how the foundation of the Church is first on apostles, second prophets, third teachers, and then lists other offices, with the cornerstone being Christ. this is admittedly a pretty radical concept, since the ideal structure in the Bible is not adhered to much at all. is this a good thing or a bad thing? well, Eberle's argument is that if you want the Holy Spirit to do his thing, putting a person who is called to be a pastor--or, worse, a pastor who is gifted in administrations--limits God.

he goes on to describe the roles of pastors, evangelists, apostles, teachers, prophets, helps, administrations, healings, gift of tongues, and so forth. he also talks about how in order for God to move and pour out the New Wine that he wants to pout out, God needs to change the wine skins that will contain it. today, if God moved in the way that we really want him to, and one day look forward to, our churches would be destroyed because our modern "wine skins" of our church structure arent entirely his design.

i have to say, this book really excited me. i see myself in many of the pages of this book, and i've briefly talked to my "pastor" who recommended this to me, and it is really on his heart to shift our church in this direction. i am so, so, so thankful to have this book. this book is a game-changer, for sure. i think that probably 80% of the modern-day church is unwilling to accept the truths from this book, but i believe that this is the ultimate direction that God will move in. and if it is, this is so exciting. man, this really blew up in my heart. i cant wait to see what happens with it.