Kenn Guliksen is an amazing church planter. He would go to a beach and start an oil painting of the scene. Before long he would be having many conversations about his painting. He would mention that he was doing a beach bible study and people would start coming. Once he had four different bible studies going he would start a beach worship service. A church would form and he would go paint somewhere else and do it again.
Each time he reworked how the church plant functioned he would change the name of the church. Kenn was in the process of doing this and felt lead to start one in Hollywood. He asked the LORD for a new name and was led to Isaiah 27:2-3:
2 In that day, "A vineyard of wine, sing of it!
3 "I, the LORD, am its keeper ; I water it every moment. So that no one will damage it, I guard it night and day. NASB
Back in the early 1990s John Wimber was interacting with a group of Christians in the Kansas City area that moved in prophecy. They had all agreed that the Vineyard movement was about intimacy and compassion. Looking back I would agree with them. That's always been at the heart of the movement. We are only a part of the universal body of Christ but Intimacy and Compassion is a big part of our spiritual DNA.
Each time he reworked how the church plant functioned he would change the name of the church. Kenn was in the process of doing this and felt lead to start one in Hollywood. He asked the LORD for a new name and was led to Isaiah 27:2-3:
2 In that day, "A vineyard of wine, sing of it!
3 "I, the LORD, am its keeper ; I water it every moment. So that no one will damage it, I guard it night and day. NASB
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| Kenn and Joanie Guliksen |
Back in the early 1990s John Wimber was interacting with a group of Christians in the Kansas City area that moved in prophecy. They had all agreed that the Vineyard movement was about intimacy and compassion. Looking back I would agree with them. That's always been at the heart of the movement. We are only a part of the universal body of Christ but Intimacy and Compassion is a big part of our spiritual DNA.
- Jim Bentley
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