The Vineyard Movement (Association of Vineyard Churches / Vineyard USA) is a neocharismatic evangelical association traceable to the 1970s ministry of Kenn Gulliksen and especially to the leadership of John Wimber from the early 1980s. Vineyard churches hold broadly evangelical doctrine, practice "power evangelism" with the expectation of continuing spiritual gifts, ordain both men and women, and worship in a congregational contemporary style that shaped much of modern evangelical music. AskCredo places Vineyard in the C-tier as a charismatic evangelical movement whose pneumatology and "kingdom-now" framework depart substantively from the Reformed confessional stream, and whose ordination practice stands outside the complementarian pattern of historic Protestantism.
None formal
pastor-led
arminian
Global · Founded 1982
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