Farewell To Josh and Regine

   Josh and Regine Brady came to help us back in September 2014. We had met them and thought they were great people. They were gracious and came. We can't say enough about how wonderful they are as Christians. They taught many about praying for healing and how to get out there and pray for people outside the church.

   The last ten months went by so fast. They are moving to North Carolina.

   Josh is giving a farewell message Sunday July 5, 2015.

   Thank you Josh and Regine for all your hard work and loving on a people you didn't know.

How We Began by Jim Bentley - June 2005 Time Capsule

Here is another transcript from June 2005. Thanks Debbie Handy for sharing this old newsletter. (I have revised and expanded the original version - JB)  :

How We Began

Jim Bentley, pastor

Before we were Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Gadsden or before we were asked to change our name to Gadsden Vineyard Church by the national Association of Vineyard Churches (now know as VineyardUSA) we were Christians looking for “More.”

In 1980, I was a high school art teacher at Glencoe and Hokes Bluff High Schools. I had been following Keith Green and Last Days Ministry when Keith was alive, and I had also been reading a lot of books.

Looking back, I now know that God was driving me. It wasn’t something of my own initiative. It’s not like I decided one day, “Hey, I’ll just become crazy and change my whole life and make my family, friends, and those at work upset and wonder what’s wrong with me. I think I will just get crazy so that all my friends at church will distance themselves from me and My Sunday school teacher will want to know why I’m putting cartoons up on the wall. You know, I’m just going to be crazy. I’ll try that.”

I was somewhat a normal Southern Baptist member since I was eleven, and then God started this whole thing about being serious. “Why don’t you just quit being part time with your Christianity? Why don’t you go for broke and be a full time Christian all the time and see where that takes you?”

1982  Wayne F., one of the guys I was talking with regularly about a more involved spiritual life, found a Christian Life magazine in October 1982. This whole issue was about a course taught in the basement of Fuller Seminary by some guy named John Wimber called Missions Course 510 - Signs and Wonders. Approximately 200 seminary students (and missionaries who were on furlough) signed up for this class. Wimber taught that God still healed and performed supernatural acts in Third World countries and even in this country and possibly even in this class. Afterwards, Wimber would have a “clinic.” At the end of each class, he would take a few minutes and say something like, “Let’s see if God wants to do something.”

I thought that Wimber was the sanest sounding guy I had ever read. Before, I had always bounced between two places. One place was really emotional and not very thoughtful; the other was so thoughtful that it was really dull. Wimber used both his emotions and his knowledge and made sense while sticking his neck out trying new things. I read the magazine in late October 1982.

1983  On Sunday, January 16, 1983, during the second song of a Meadowbrook Baptist Sunday morning worship service, I was sitting on the third row where we always had sat for the last eight years.  One minute I didn’t want to pray, and the next minute I just had to go to the prayer room. I told Jan, my wife, who was standing up with the hymnal, “Hey, I think I’ve got to go to the prayer room.”

Jan, my first wife, was a very practical person. However, I was not, I was more artistic and let's say emotionally driven at times. I was really like a kite flying around in the sky, so to speak. She said, “Well, go.”

So, I excused myself, went out to the prayer room, and I prayed a couple of sentences. I don’t remember what I prayed, but I knew enough to quit talking. The second I quit talking I heard a sentence come through my mind, the strongest sentence I’ve ever heard, not another voice but a very strong thought. It said, “I want you to start a church.”

Out loud, I said, “I can’t pastor or preach.” I was thinking, “I’m an art teacher.”

Just as strongly as the first time I heard a reply, “that’s not what I said.”

People talk about the glory of God being like a weight. (The Hebrew word for “glory” actually means weight). The only time I ever had a physical experience that matched this experience was when I had my wisdom teeth out and the dentist gave me Valium. At that moment in the prayer room, I had the sensation of being pushed down into the carpet. I felt very heavy and very relaxed at the same time. It lifted off in a minute or so, and I realized that God had communicated with me.

“What does this mean? Should I give up teaching and go to seminary? What do I do?”

I finally went outside and walked around. I couldn’t go back in and sit down. The special guest was inside speaking about how useful Sanford’s education classes were. (I think it was Christian Education Month.)

Everyone I was close to was out of town. My pastor was out of town. My friends were out of town. There was no one there but one guy that knew my trek. I found him at the end of the service and told him what God had said, and he told me that he’d been called and was going to seminary. He said, “You should probably go to seminary. That’s what I’m going to do.” In reality he didn’t go to seminary after he moved to Texas. I guess God was calling him to Texas so that he would get a job in hospital administration.

Later in the spring, I wrote to John Wimber. In the meantime, I talked to my pastor and other pastors, but I was never satisfied with their answers to my questions. However, Wimber replied and wrote me that he was going to be in Nashville in April. He invited me to come and promised to meet with me after the meetings.

So, we traveled to Nashville to Music Row to a church called the Belmont Church. Now, this church had taken out all the pews where the choir had been and had a band set up on the stage. As we entered the sanctuary, the band was singing a Maranatha song called “As We Gather,” a really mellow praise song.

I immediately started crying. The tears just bypassed my mind. It felt like the scene from the movie ET where he said, “Home!” I felt like I had come home, but I had not even met Wimber yet.

Now, that was really weird. What was even weirder for me was this meeting was comprised of 400 or so Church of Christ leaders from non-instrumental and instrumental churches wearing three-piece dark blue or gray suits. I had on my blue jeans and was with my wife and a college student that we had brought with us. A couple from Florida had also been invited to meet John. It was obvious that we were visitors.

Then, this guy came up on the stage. His hair was a sandy blond color that was beginning to turn white; he was dressed in a Hawaiian shirt with white pants and shoes, something like Pat Boone would have worn back then.

I told my wife, “I think that’s Wimber.” I was right.

He talked about healing for a while, and then he said,  “Let’s have a clinic.” That wasn’t too bad. Someone heard the word “arthritis” and maybe the number “nine.” Eventually, nine people stood up and came to the stage for people to begin to pray for them. He told us to watch them and see if we could see what the Holy Spirit was doing “to” and “in” them. I really couldn’t see anything except that maybe one guy was vibrating a little.

I had never been around this kind of thing. I could tell that whatever was happening was important, but I had just not seen anything like this before.

The meeting ended, and we went for supper. Then we came back for the evening session. At the end of the session, John said, “God wants to anoint some of you.” It looked like almost everyone in the session was a Church of Christ minister. He asked everyone to stand. I stood up standing halfway in the aisle because I’m a guy that doesn’t like to be trapped in the pew.

He then said that God wanted to touch many of us in a new way and that there were people here who needed to be refreshed. Then he asked God to send the Holy Spirit. “In Jesus’ name, Holy Spirit, come.”

He took the microphone, put it under his arm, and sat down on the top step of this old stage that had seven or eight steps from the floor to the platform. Everyone was standing, looking around at the other people standing. Nothing much was going on. No music, just us standing and waiting. But waiting for what?

Then from the back of the room, we heard a loud sound, something heavy hitting something like wood. Then the sound was to the side of us. We realized that what we were hearing were people who couldn’t stand up. They were falling backwards into the wooden pews that had no padding. This started moving from the back of the room toward the front slowly, two or three people falling back onto the pews on every row.

When this “effect or whatever you want to call it” got even with me, a guy who was standing in the aisle across from me went nose first to the floor. Now, backwards is one thing, especially when someone is pushing on your forehead hard enough to cause you to lose your balance, but a Church of Christ guy in a three-piece navy suit going down face forward - that’s impressive. That’s really impressive. It was so impressive that his best friend crawled next to me trying to talk to the guy whose face was on the carpet to find out if he was okay. Wimber stood up from sitting on the top step and said in a calm voice, “Sir, God’s with him. He’s okay.”

The friend said back to Wimber, “I just wanted to know what happened to him, see if he’s okay.” Eventually the best friend tried to talk to the guy down on the carpet. I could hear the guy on carpet mumble something. The best friend got up, walked down the aisle, went out a side door, and slammed it shut. By this time the “effect” had spread all over the sanctuary. Wimber told the people standing that they could bless the ones that had fallen back into the pews.

In a few minutes the man who had stormed out came back in and apologized saying that he just had never seen anything like this. I could hear his friend who was lying on the floor next to me say, “I’m just fine.”

After the session ended, I was going to leave because Wimber had disappeared, but the team was still praying for people. We went to our car, but instead of leaving I thought I would make one last try, so I said, "I’m going back inside and see if I can find Wimber." So I went up to one of the people who had come with John from California. I told Blaine Cook that I was from Alabama and was supposed to meet John and Carol Wimber after the session. He told me that they were going to meet at the IHOP restaurant down the street and that I could follow him in my car.

When we got to the restaurant, I told John and Carol Wimber that I was adopting them that night. He told Steve, his assistant, “Give this young man a 100 cassettes of teachings from our church.” (I would listen to them all that summer.)

That was my first encounter. I literally stayed up all night because I had just seen something and really didn’t know what it was. I couldn’t explain it. I told my wife as we were driving home that this was supernatural and that I was pretty sure this was God and not the enemy.

After Nashville, we began a meeting in homes using the Vineyard small group model. We did this until early 1984 and were still attending our home church. Nobody from the church felt impressed to help do what God had asked me to do. Of course, I wasn’t trying to get anyone to leave the church; I was just trying to tell my friends the story.

In fact, I went to a church that was of another denomination to talk to the pastor and one of my best friends who went there about the things that I had seen. The pastor said that he could see that I probably wouldn’t be happy in his church. (Many churches believe the spiritual gifts ended with the first century Christians, and their denomination was one of those.) At the time I didn’t realize that he was really trying to get rid of me.

1984  In the summer of 1984, I attended my first big conference at the Vineyard Anaheim. There were approximately 2000 people from all over the country who attended and a few from outside of the country. The Holy Spirit was very intense in the conference, and that was wonderful and surprising and a little strange all at the same time. I thought that this was normal for the Vineyard movement because I really didn’t have anything to gauge it by. Later I discovered that this meeting was considered the all-time peak anointed conference for two years before and after. I just thought that it was normal for people to be manifesting demonic things over here and for someone else to be healed over there and for others to be empowered in the front or the back of the room. So, I came home expecting this to be the normal thing to happen in my living room each week.

We continued to meet in my living room where we would sing some songs and then invite the Holy Spirit to come. We would sit and look at each other until something happened or someone had an impression. Amazingly, God did at least one thing every week. By January 1985, we were about a dozen folks. We count January of 1985 as a kind of starting date since we got a checking account that month and Nori Kelley and Debbie Handy became our first worship leaders.

In 1986 we rented the Christian Brothers’ building on Sunday afternoons, then moved to an old fitness center for a year, and back to our living room for a year or so. Then in January 1990 we came back to Christian Brothers and have never left. Christian Brothers gave us their building a few years later. We bought the Santos printing company building next door in 2001.

Friends would come by and visit, sometimes a year or so later, and say, “You guys are always changing a little every time we visit.” That is good. Living things are always changing.

Jim taught art in Glencoe and Hokes Bluff schools from 1973-1998. He has a MA in Art Education. He and Jan were married 31 years before her passing. He and Patsy have been married ten years. Patsy is a biblical counselor. They have seven grandchildren and two godchildren.

Time Capsule - June 2005 - Who We Are by Michael Bynum

Debbie Handy found a His Handiwork newsletter she had written in June 2005. It's fun looking back to see what we were doing or thinking about. It's kind of a Time Capsule. Here's an article from that newsletter by Michael Bynum:

WHO WE ARE…

By Michael Bynum

Just who are we as a fellowship? What does it mean to be part of “Vineyard”? Our fellowship is not the only Vineyard. We belong to an association of churches that adhere to a common set of values and beliefs. Now, all vineyards don’t look alike. Neither do they function alike, but they all have the same core values and beliefs.

We believe that the community we call the Gadsden Vineyard Church belongs to God. It is not ours, so He alone should be the source of direction for us. Jesus said in Matthew 16:18, “I will build my church”. We seek to not usurp God’s power and plans through our own plans and agendas but do seek His will for our community of believers.

God’s directions are carried out through the church government and leadership whose main responsibility is to serve the people who are committed to the fellowship. We also believe that leaders should have a servant’s heart. The people aren’t there to serve the leadership; the leadership is there to serve them.

The leadership’s authority does not exist so that it can be heavy-handed and rule over the fellowship. Authority’s main goal is to create a safe place where people can meet with God.

(In 2005) Jim Bentley is our senior pastor. Michael Bynum and Kris Catoe are our associate pastors. Our elders are Todd Bagley, Wayne Wimpee, Brook Finlayson, and Clay Rowe. They meet on the first Monday of the month to pray and to hear the needs and concerns of the fellowship.

(In 2005) The board oversees the facilities and the operations thereof. Jim Bentley is the president of the board. Debbie Handy serves as the secretary and treasurer. The other board members are Michael Bynum, Kris Catoe, Todd Bagley, Brook Finlayson, Clay Rowe, Robby Elrod, and Walt Muller. Board meetings occur approximately four times a year. (The dates are posted on the calendar in the kitchen.)

(In 2015 - Jim is senior pastor. Michael pastors Vineyard ReCovery Church. Tommy Puckett and Todd Bagley are assistant pastors. The elders are Todd Bagley, Clay Rowe, Tommy Puckett, Robby Elrod, and Walt Muller. The Board of Directors are: Jim, Todd, Clay, Robby, Walt, Tommy, and Debbie.)

Through commitment to God’s call and the purposes ordained for our church, we encourage our fellowship to be good stewards with their lives, talents, and finances, freely giving away what has been freely given to us. We’ve had some incredible things happen over the last few months, which have driven home the fact that we cannot out give God. So, we are constantly striving to become an outwardly focused. We’re not there yet, but we are working on it and getting better at it.

Matthew 5:13 states that we are the salt of the earth, not the salt of the church. We’re not here to flavor the church but to flavor the world taking out into a broken, hurting world the good news that has a difference in our lives. We seek to do this through a life of loving people.

The gospel message is more than just a formula; the message is us and the changes God has made in our lives through Jesus. It’s not just about memorizing scripture and going to church. When we minister to that broken, hurting world, we need to let God speak to us about the people to whom we are ministering, let Him give us a word for them. We should never assume that everyone is in the same place. So, our fellowship is learning how to hear God more and better than ever before. We are learning how to be equipped so that we can serve others. Thus, the motto of our fellowship is, “Equipping to Serve”.

Our highest priority as a fellowship is the pursuit of God through a lifestyle of worship unto Him, both individually and corporately. Sunday should not be the only time we worship God and read our Bible; we should be worshipping and studying His word throughout the week. We are called to be students of the Word and not have just a head full of knowledge and factoids. We value studying the Word not knowledge’s sake but as a practical guide for our daily lives. The Bible tells us how to live life, and the Holy Spirit shows us when and where we’re supposed to do it.

These are a few of our priorities. No, we are not a well-oiled machine yet, and sometimes we feel like we are flying by the seat of our pants, which is very scary. But, we are seeking God and asking Him what to do next. Over the past 21 years He has never forsaken or forgotten us, and we believe that He will faithfully continue to remember us. He is always faithful to come and meet with hungry hearts who are desperate for Him. - June 2005

3rd Annual Living Sacrifices Worship Conference

3rd Annual Living Sacrifices Worship Conference

July 10-11, 2015

with

Crispin Schroeder

and

Bobby McDonald

Bobby McDonald and Crispin Schroeder

UNITY NOT JUST AGREEMENT

Photo Charles Harnach

I've been reading one section a day from Marty Boller's book, The Wisdom of Wimber. I found these two quotes on page 196:

"Jesus has commanded us to love others as we love ourselves and we all know how very difficult that is. Wimber's daughter-in-law, Christy Wimber, shared with us on one of her trips to Cedar Rapids, that there's a difference between trying to find agreement with one another as Christians, and God's ability to grant us His unity. Finding total agreement with others in the body of Christ is nearly impossible. Over the years, she has come to the conclusion that it's not even desirable to look for agreement at times, because agreement means that everyone must agree to build community. Unity, on the other hand, means that we are choosing oneness of heart, mind, and spirit, despite our varying opinions or lack of total agreement on all issues."

"When unity becomes our goal, you and I can strongly disagree on certain subjects, but at the end of the day, if we both claim Jesus as our leader, I think He can bring unity that truly binds us together as one."

Thanks Marty, I needed that.

WIND IN CONCERT

Wind in Concert

May 1, 2, and 3, 2015

May 1 @ 7p for First Friday

May 2 @ 7p for Vineyard Recovery Church

May 3 @ 10:30a for our Sunday morning Worship

A "WIND" WEEKEND in the forecast

WIND is coming the first weekend in May. Nori and Barbie and the guys will be playing First Friday. Then on Saturday night at Vineyard ReCovery Church and leading worship Sunday morning at Gadsden Vineyard.

Are We Leading Or Following?

If Christians have God in their lives and God is naturally creative then why do Christians end up being followers? There are probably many factors but on the surface we don't look like leaders or very intelligent. Look at these performances and see if you see a difference. One photo is from a Jesus Culture concert, one from a Pink Floyd concert, and one from a Trent Vineyard U.K. concert. Can you label the three?

A.

B.

C.

Not saying the bands aren't good. Not saying anything but bless these young people. I am saying true creative leading can be lonely, misunderstood and ridiculed. Real leaders aren't afraid to take a risk and the church is in a desperate need for someone to model risky leadership in every area of church life.

Rather be safe and make a little money? Then get into selling lighting systems with smoke machines.

ANSWER: A. The Trent Vineyard, B. Pink Floyd, C. Jesus Culture

Ugandan Thunder Children 's Choir

Ugandan Thunder is coming March 10th. Concert starts at 6:30

John Wimber

Speak the words.

Do the works.

See the wonders.

- John Wimber

Josh and Regine Brady

JOSH AND REGINE HAVE COME TO WORK ALONG SIDE OUR CREW. Welcome guys!

Josh and Regine Brady

  Josh has previously worked in youth ministry at UrbanPromise in Camden, NJ for 13 years.  Camden has been reported to be the poorest city in America and once again ranked the most dangerous city in America in 2014.  Josh brings his years of experience working in the inner city and seeing powerful moves of God.  

  During Josh's time working at UrbanPromise, he attended Palmer Seminary (associated with Eastern University)  and graduated with his Master's of Divinity.  Josh's background in working in ministry and being mentored and influenced by Bruce Main (President of UrbanPromise) and taught by Tony Campolo (Christian author and speaker)  gives him a tremendous heart for the poor and marginalized.  He has also been influenced and prayed for by many great pastors and ministers who move powerfully in the Holy Spirit including Bill Johnson, Randy Clark, and Heidi Baker and believes the impact of Jesus' sacrifice on the cross is meant to transform all who invites Jesus Christ into their lives and ask the Holy Spirit to heal them.

  Regine worked as a teacher at classical Christian schools in Arizona and Texas and has an extremely creative style of teaching her students. She has also attended and graduated from the Global School of Supernatural Ministry associated with Randy Clark.  She has a variety of gifts and callings in the areas of faith, healing and prophecy.  As She ministers to women she has seen many who have different addictions and strongholds experience God move powerfully and do some amazing miracles in their lives.  Regine is also amazing with youth and helps them realize who they are in God and models what it means to pray bold prayers and experience God's miraculous power.  Regine also loves power evangelism and is known for her boldness in praying for people and seeing God show up in healing and delivering people.

  Josh and Regine believe it is impossible to hear the voice of The Lord or experience God's presence and not be changed.  They are excited to help people come into an intimate relationship with God and learn to hear and obey God's voice and value God's presence in their lives.

Power Evangelism

  This class is designed to encourage and train people in how to step out in faith to see miracles, signs, and wonders in their daily lives.  We will teach a Biblical model for healing and prophetic ministry and continue to press into greater encounters with God. In this class, the time will be divided between learning about healing and prophecy and then going out to the streets and praying for people as well as being challenged to pray for people throughout the week.  The Berean call says, "May the lamb that was slain receive the reward of His suffering." These were missionaries giving their life for the Gospel so people would encounter God.  This class will help believers step out in faith to see people healed and delivered through bold prayers of faith, which is what Jesus paid for on the cross.  John Wimber spelled faith: "R-I-S-K" and we will experience God's delight and encounter His goodness as we share the Gospel not just with words but signs and wonders and miracles.

You can always tell the size of a man's faith based on the size of the problem that it takes to discourage him.

Our assignment is to invade the impossible – those things that cannot be accomplished WITHOUT God!!

Remembering my plastic watch

What's the big deal?

You say Jesus is alive again, so what?

That was a long time ago.

What's your proof there buddy?

I'm sitting in Arby's drinking coffee and watching the rain. I'm remembering different events in my life—the morning I was in Waffle House and I looked at my plastic Casio watch. (I found a blog entry I wrote about it):

'Wednesday July 25, 2007 after our Vineyard service, Patsy and I were to take Tammy and Clay R. to see the backyard at the house we hope to buy. (The view was nice at night.) We're waiting with them at the skating rink parking lot with two of their boys. The boys are there to meet some of their friends. Charlie R. is 11 (I think) and out of the blue he asked me, "Mister Jim has God being doing anything lately?" Patsy says, "Tell him about your watch." "Charlie, late in June I'm reading a book one morning at the Waffle House. (The book was Tortured Wonders) I stop and start to note the date in the margin. I look at my old Casio DataBank watch, which is digital, and it reads '6-40- -' (no year). Man, my watch has finally had it. I'm able to reset it and it corrects itself to '6-20-07'. I tried to make the watch show '40' again or '- -' for no year. It only showed real dates. I make a note in the margin listing both dates. I try looking up anything I can in the Scriptures that would involve 6:40. I had counted 40 days from June 20th. Nothing seems to connect. I call my wife and tell her about it. She thinks it is spiritual and wished I had brought the watch home and showed her. 'Sorry. It didn't seem that important only interesting."' Charlie and S. P., 14, start working on a meaning. A few minutes later S.P. says, "Mister Jim, I think it is exactly what the watch said: June 40th. Let's see... That would be... July 10th." Patsy leans up in the seat and says, "Isn't that the day you saw the cloud on top of the mountain and drove up there and the house was for sale?" "Yes, it was." She leans up again. "How about photocopying the passage in the book you were reading when you dated it 6-40- - ." I checked the book the next day. In the next paragraph after I had dated my first reading for the day with 6-20 and also 6-40- - author Rodney Clapp writes on page 170: "...Our real home is a destination, the renewed heaven and earth." He continues to write about home here and our heavenly home.

What do you think?

I think that after 19 months of asking for direction 'validation' came. It comes after we had moved on what we thought and felt was the thing to do. We had peace but no noticeable word from the LORD. But He had spoken. He had already giving a token sign on June 20th about July 10th. 

In the Bible donkeys talk and axe heads float. In my life plastic watches give prophetic words.'

You say Jesus came back alive and ate some fish with his disciples—that seems so normal in this supernaturally natural life.

- Jim

Work While It Is Today

My earthly father crossed over in March 2013. He lived to be 89. This was his candy jar that our grandson broke. I filled it with candy this morning. It reminds me of many things.

1. That as much as we want a perfect world with everything clean, safe and in place that is not the way it is. Things happen, people do stuff to us, we do stuff to others. A wooden duck loses it's head from time to time. 2. That time for each of us is very short. A few hours to work and play and serve others. A few perfect days if we are so blessed. Maybe a few years with a mind, emotional heart and body that works. 3. That God knows we are dust and is pressing us toward a deeper, stronger relationship with Himself. Moses wrote a song about this. It's Psalm 90:

1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place
in all generations.

2 Before the mountains were brought forth,
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

3 You return man to dust
and say, “Return, O children of man!”
4 For a thousand years in your sight
are but as yesterday when it is past,
or as a watch in the night.

5 You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream,
like grass that is renewed in the morning:

6 in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it fades and withers.

7 For we are brought to an end by your anger;
by your wrath we are dismayed.

8 You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your presence.

9 For all our days pass away under your wrath;
we bring our years to an end like a sigh.

10 The years of our life are seventy,
or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span is but toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.

11 Who considers the power of your anger,
and your wrath according to the fear of you?

12 So teach us to number our days
that we may get a heart of wisdom.

13 Return, O Lord! How long?
Have pity on your servants!

14 Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
and for as many years as we have seen evil.

16 Let your work be shown to your servants,
and your glorious power to their children.

17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,
and establish the work of our hands upon us;
yes, establish the work of our hands!  ESV

Danny Daniels Speaks of Vineyard's True North

Danny Daniels at Gadsden Vineyard

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•  "What God did on the mountain top, with committed, experienced practitioners who desired and expected Him to visit, He wants to do back home. History has shown that it won't happen through teaching and sermons alone, but through instruction, orientation, modeling, apprenticeship style training. And, not as random events, but frequent, on-going gatherings to be trained, equipped, and led into practicing in a high-risk clinic setting. The Word doesn't say, "Read and see", but "Taste and see that the Lord is good." Sermons and series won't do it, as valuable as they are. Jesus did all that he did while the disciples watched. He had them do it with him. He had them do it while he watched. He sent them out to do it. No shortcuts for those of us whom JRW [John Wimber] challenged back in the day, and no short cuts now. I pray that we will re-value and re-establish what made the Vineyard great and effective. It's difficult, takes commitment to the long haul, but pays off tremendously. Carve out the time, open the doors, turn on the lights, teach it from scripture, model it to the people, bring them alongside, determine to do it until Jesus returns. God is good." 
• - Danny Daniels, July 22, 2013 
• Used by permission of Danny Daniels - Facebook Post

LIVING SACRIFICES TEACHINGS

SESSIONS 4 AND 5 are now uploading at the Sermon Net site. Session 4 Danny Daniels teaches. Session 5 Danny Daniels, John and Marie Barnett, and Chris Lizotte speak on the Roots of Vineyard Worship.