We’d like to include your work.
Here is exactly what that means, what we do to make sure your words arrive intact, and what you get back. If any of it doesn’t sit right, we’d rather hear that than have you wonder.
What New Wine is
New Wine is a Bible study tool for Spirit-filled believers. Someone asks a real question — about the baptism of the Spirit, about deliverance, about what healing actually is — and instead of a flattened answer averaged out of the whole internet, they get an answer built from a small, vetted library of named teachers. Every answer says whose teaching it came from and points back to where that teaching lives.
Ask about a teacher, and you get that teacher — named, and linked to the source.
It is not a chatbot with a Bible bolted on, and it is not a place to read your books. It is closer to a well-kept card catalogue that can answer a question and then tell you exactly which shelf to go to.
What we do not do with your work
This is the part most people want answered first, so we’ll put it first.
We do not train a model on it. There is no model here that has absorbed your writing and learned to sound like you. New Wine retrieves passages and cites them. Your work is never dissolved into a system that can then imitate it without you.
We do not reproduce it. New Wine is not a reading experience for your material and will not become one. What a reader sees is a short excerpt, an attribution, and a link out. If they want the teaching, they have to go to you.
We do not put words in your mouth. Answers paraphrase what a named source actually teaches and are labelled as summary — never presented as your own words. The system that writes answers is blocked, deterministically, from producing quotations attributed to a named teacher. It cannot decide to quote you.
We do not blend you into an average. No anonymous synthesis, no “some Christians believe.” If you taught it, your name is on it. Where two teachers in the library disagree, readers see the disagreement rather than a smoothed-over middle.
How your material enters, and what keeps it intact
Losing or altering a teacher’s words is the failure we care most about preventing. Here is the actual process, not a statement of intent.
- What you grant is written down. We record what you granted, which titles it covers, what it may be used for, and how you withdraw it.
- Your text is captured whole, and completeness is checked by software. Where we work from recordings, the transcript is machine-compared against the length of the original before it is allowed in — material that comes back short is rejected and re-fetched rather than quietly stored. We learned to do this the hard way, on our own library, and built the check so it cannot happen again.
- No model rewrites your words in storage. Text goes in as text. There is no cleanup pass where a language model is trusted to tidy a transcript and hand back something shorter than what you said.
- Attribution is bound at the moment of entry. A document cannot exist in our system without being tied to its source. Attribution is not a label added later that could fall off — it is a required part of the record, enforced by the database itself.
- One switch per source. Whether a source can be surfaced is decided by a gate in the database, keyed to that source. When it is turned off, no reader can reach that material, whatever else goes wrong.
- Scripture references are preserved, not guessed. A reference you gave is only ever removed when we can confirm the source does not contain it — never on a machine’s failure to recognise it. We would rather keep a reference we cannot parse than strip one you actually preached.
What you get back
Your name on every answer your material shapes. Not a footnote. The attribution is the product — it’s the reason people trust the thing.
A link back to where your teaching lives. Every citation opens a panel with the title, your name, and a link out to your site, your channel, or the book. For material you give us, we record where it should point before it goes in.
A listing in the library. Title, author, topic, and a way through to the original. A directory entry, deliberately — it holds no text of yours and is built to send people away from it.
A profile inside the product. Readers can open a short biography, the themes you teach on, and a bibliography of your work. It’s curated, not machine-written.
A tool whose stated goal is to send people to you. This is the unusual part, and it’s worth being plain about. Time-in-app is explicitly not how we measure whether New Wine is working. It’s written into the product’s governing documents that a feature which makes someone say “I don’t need my pastor, I have this” gets killed regardless of how well it performs. The whole design is a handoff.
What partnership means, plainly
We use the word partnership the way a church uses it, not the way software companies use it. You are not signing up to a platform. You are letting us point people toward your teaching, on terms you set and can end.
Non-exclusive. Nothing here limits what you do with your own work, anywhere else, ever.
Specific titles, agreed one at a time. We are not asking for a catalogue or a standing grant. We ask about particular books, series, or recordings, and you say yes or no to each. If it goes well and you want to extend it, that’s a later conversation — not something buried in this one.
Revocable, without explanation. You withdraw, and the material stops being retrievable. That’s a switch on our side, not a project — it takes effect immediately, and you don’t owe us a reason.
No transfer of anything. You keep your copyright. We are asking for permission to index and cite, not for a licence to publish.
Full visibility. You can ask, at any time, for a list of exactly what we hold under your name, and have any of it removed.
For publishers, estates, and rights administrators
If you administer someone else’s work, the same terms apply and the same list above is available to you on request. Two things that usually matter at your end:
We partner title by title, so a grant here is narrow and auditable rather than open-ended. And withdrawal is genuinely a state change on our side, not a deletion request that enters a queue — which means a permission granted here can be unwound cleanly if circumstances change.
Where material carries an open licence, we honour the licence terms, attribution requirements included.
Our interlinear and lexicon word-study data, for example, carries this required attribution: “Data created by www.STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).”
Where we honestly are
New Wine is in private beta. The library’s foundation is public-domain literature — Andrew Murray, R.A. Torrey, Charles Finney, the voices of the early Pentecostal outpouring — and we are now reaching out to contemporary teachers, ministries and estates one at a time.
We are not going to tell you this will send you a wave of readers. We don’t have the numbers to say that, and we’d rather you hear the honest version now than feel misled later. What we can tell you is how the thing is built, and that every mechanism in it points outward to you.
The theological standard we select voices against is published, openly, at Our Theological Lens. The full detail of how we handle rights is at How New Wine Handles Sources.
Talk to us before you decide
Ask us anything — how a specific book would be handled, what an answer citing you actually looks like, what happens if you change your mind. We answer every rights enquiry, and a no costs you nothing.
The tool serves the teacher. Never the reverse.