To
Understanding the Vineyard it is helpful to understand the
following:
1. Our
Genetic Code - the ten ministries we believe are essential to
be a healthy church.
2. Our
Values of how we want ministry to occur. We desire to
be naturally supernatural like the gospels picture
Jesus ministering to people.
3. The
Radical Middle - We describe ourselves as being in the middle
between conservative evangelicals on one hand and pentecostals on
the other. We want to receive and include the best of both
these groups and yet leave behind is unhelpful. Take the
best and go.
4. Our
Statement of Faith - which is a conservative evangelical
faith, yet believes that all the gifts of the Spirit mentioned in
the Bible are for today.
Helpful
Books
Helpful
Websites
Our
Vineyard Name - One day in 1974, when reading Isaiah 27:2-3
the name Vineyard came alive to one of our early
leaders in the
Isaiah
27:2-3 In that day-- "Sing about a fruitful
vineyard: I, the LORD, watch over it; I water it
continually. I guard it day and night so that no one may harm it.
John
15:5 "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a
man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart
from me you can do nothing.