Vineyard Core Values and Beliefs
Who We Are
The Vineyard is a God-initiated, global movement of churches (of which Vineyard Christian Church is a part) with the kingdom of God as its theological center.
The Bible is our rule of faith and practice. Our desire is to know the Bible, do what it says, and experience the way of living it describes. We embrace a full range of Kingdom practices, from proclaiming the Good News of Jesus, to healing and deliverance, to ministry with the poor.
Vineyard churches embody a practice that includes intimate worship, actively equipping ordinary people for ministry, responding to the initiative and leading of the Holy Spirit, and joining God’s mission in the world.
What We Do
In light of this, we believe that God has called VUSA to participate in the kingdom of God as it moves forward by
Providing pastoral care, vision, resources, and oversight to help local Vineyard churches fulfill their God-given calling.
Envisioning and motivating pastors and leaders to join God’s mission by multiplying churches both in the United States and around the world.
Training and empowering current pastors to disciple, train, and send future leaders.
Where We Are Going
We will know we have succeeded in our mission when we see thousands of churches with Vineyard theology and practices multiplied around the world – led by pastors who are theologically, practically, and spiritually equipped to pursue their unique calling to “the greater glory of God and the well-being of people.”
OUR BELIEFS
WE BELIEVE…
that God is the Eternal King. He is an infinite, unchangeable Spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, goodness, justice, power, and love.
that God’s kingdom is everlasting.
that Satan, originally a great, good angel, rebelled against God, taking a host of angels with him.
that under the temptation of Satan, our original parents fell from grace, bringing sin, sickness, and God’s judgment of death on the earth.
that conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, as full God and fully human in one person, Jesus is humanity as God intended us to be.
that the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in Jesus Christ and that He is our abiding Helper, Teacher, and Guide.
that the Holy Spirit inspired the human authors of Holy Scripture so that the Bible is without error in the original manuscripts.
that through the preaching of the Good News of Jesus and the kingdom of God, and the work of the Holy Spirit, God regenerates, justifies, adopts, and sanctifies, through Jesus by the Spirit, all who repent of their sins and trust in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
in the one, holy, universal Church.
that Jesus Christ committed two ordinances to the Church: water baptism and the Lord’s Supper.
That God’s kingdom has come in the ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ, that it continues to come in the ministry of the Spirit through the Church, and that it will be consummated in the glorious, visible, and triumphant appearing of Christ.