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OUR PRIORITIES
What We Stress at the Vineyard
Reaching Upward - Loving God
- Passionately pursuing God
- Enthusiastically worshipping God
- Relying on God's presence and power to achieve God's purposes
- Depending upon God through prayer and intercession
- Listening prayer
- Receiving God's gifts with gratitude
- Responding to God's grace offered to us through Jesus Christ
- Actively surrending, dedicating and presenting our whole selves to God
Connecting Inward - Loving People
- Living out our commitment to Christ's body through small groups
- Seizing opportunities to observe the "one-another" passages in the NT
- Providing a context where "everybody gets to play"
- Providing a context for encouragement and pastoral care
- Celebrating passages of life together
- Applying Biblical principles to our lives
- Supporting marriage and families
Reaching Outward - Serving Our City
- Employing the talent of our church to serve the city
- Loving people into a relationship with Jesus Christ
- Welcoming the spiritually curious and unconvinced with warm hospitality
- Cultivating outward focused life styles
- Striving to clearly and reasonably articulate truth that it makes sense to a thinking follower of Christ as well as to the un-churched person
- Practicing both mercy and justice
- Caring for the poor and needy
- Feeding for the hungry
- Bringing people from darkness to light
Moving Forward - Multiplying
- Passing on the faith from generation to generation
- Providing people with training for ministry and for life
- Everyone ministering ... not just the leaders, pastors and staff
- Reproducing disciples, workers and leaders
- Planting new churches
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