Connecting Theology to Worship & Discipleship

Connecting Theology to Worship & Discipleship

My relationship with the Vineyard has, at times, been somewhat complex. I’ve found that this is common for other people in the Vineyard I came into the Vineyard as a kid when my parents started attending one in Denver, CO. I’ve been basically hanging around ever...
Uniquely Vineyard: Avoiding Theological Ditches

Uniquely Vineyard: Avoiding Theological Ditches

Locating the Vineyard’s history is much easier than predicting our future, depending on who you speak to. The influence of the Quakers, Evangelicalism, and Pentecostalism is well known amongst students of Vineyard history but how other traditions will shape our...
Uniquely Vineyard: Avoiding Theological Ditches

Thoughts on #SVS2018 from the cheap seats…

This year’s Society of Vineyard Scholars annual meeting was at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. Featuring a number of well-known scholars (e.g., Howard Snyder, Craig Keener, Eleanor Mumford), Vineyard thinkers and friends of the Vineyard...
Uniquely Vineyard: Avoiding Theological Ditches

The Sacramental Nature of the Church

If a sacrament is a means of grace, or to improve upon an Augustinian idea, a visible sign of both invisible and visible grace, how might the church be sacramental?  This is a question I have long been wrestling with and the suggestion I made in my dissertation was...