Vineyard Central Information

Vineyard Central is an ongoing experiment of blending church and intentional community. There have been many different expressions of that experiment over the years, but the motivating desire has remained the same: to participate in God's mission to redeem, reconcile and renew all of creation-every person, family, city and place-by embracing, proclaiming and demonstrating the good news of God's love. We want to be a part of the transforming work of God in our neighborhood and believe the Church still has a central role to play in that work. We also believe that this work best happens when God's people enmesh themselves in a particular place with a particular people, which is why many of us are committed to living in the neighborhood. We want to learn from those who have lived here a lot longer than us, people who often practice the hospitality we preach much better than we do! At the end of the day, we hope to become the kind of people God intended us to be, and so we long for the following four realities to be true of us:1. We hope to grow in our love for God and for each other. We want to know how wide, how long, how high and how deep the love of Christ is, and be able to show that love to each other. We want to delve deep into the reality that we are sons and daughters of God. Jesus made it clear that loving God is inextricably linked to loving others, and so we hope to grow in that love as well. We hope that as we grow, we will be able to spur each other on to love and good deeds, to speak the truth in love, and to encourage each other. We are committing to this journey together. We are not meant to do it alone, and we hope to live into God's love as a community. Guiding Scriptures: Mt. 22:37-40, Rom.