New Wine and Old Wineskins: When It's Time to Begin Again

When people try to pit Jesus against the Pharisees, his basic first response is, "well, that's their thing, this is mine." And sure, of course, later Jesus will go after. He will critique particularly those people who he sees wielding power over and against the common people, but generally, as a mission statement for his life, he is not all that enamored with tearing things down, at least not in the way that he's committed to building something new.