Being a Pastor in a Vineyard church, I often get the questions; what is Vineyard? What are your values? And what is unique about you, or what is Vineyards emphasis? What is makes Vineyard different?
As an answer to these questions,I will for the next couple of weeks write a few thoughts about Vineyard as a worldwide denomination, but I will also narrow it down to Gothenburg Vineyard. I will look at the values, the doctrines and give a presentation and comment on them.
In Alexander Venters book; “doing Church” he tells some of the thoughts behind the early beginnings of Vineyard as a movement. When John Wimber first started the Vineyard movement one of the factors that strongly influenced John Wimber, was his commitment to be relevant to the generation of his day. They included the postwar generation born between 1945 and 1965.
They sought meaning and would not just accept everything as truth. They wanted reality and not pretense.
As a Church growth consultant John Wimber saw first hand how the church in America was not really what he believed it should be.
He realized how so many people found Church to be boring, out of touch, unrealistic and irrelevant. And the very people who perceived and experianced church to be this way, well, if they got involved they would just mess it all up.
A part of Wimbers vision was to reach these non- believers, the irreligious, the fearful, the hurting, the disillusioned and create an environment that they could relate to and be at home in.
Vineyard today wants to continue this legacy and a we have put it doen as foundational value.
We our church to look like that. On our web page (under; vår forsamling) the following is written:
Vineyard USA 25th Anniversary from Vineyard USA on Vimeo.
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