Life Church Vineyard

Everyone gets to play. 

“The messiness of ministry is the ministry!” Mitch Price

“Church health is determined if everyone’s gifts are being used”.

“Church health is determined by its commitment to address the mess.”Jay Pathak

God uses imperfect people to carry out His perfect will.

The way to a healthy Church is spending time with God. Our tithes and offerings are our way of honoring Him by helping others, spiritually and physically.

God wants to work in us and through us through Holy Spirit to bring hope to us and others.

Beyond the pew and in to the streets!!

A healthy you.

A healthy Church.

John 14:12 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. 13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.

Roles 

Gifts

Ministry

The Role is the WHAT

The Gift is the HOW

The HOW comes when we do The WHAT (our ministry)

We should eagerly seek the gifts of Holy Spirit. When Evil and brokenness are abounding our light should shine more and more. 

Our spiritual health thrives in His unity.   

Help us to clearly hear You in our everyday lives.

John 10:10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

In and through Holy Spirit we achieve His perfect will for our life.

Changing ourselves by being spiritually healthy helps to bring change to the world.

Galatians 6:10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.

The Church should be taking care of the needs of the oppressed.In our good works others are drawn to Jesus. We are His hands and feet.

We need to be united not divided. The only way that will be accomplished is in the unity of Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthian 12:

12 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. 14 For in fact the body is not one member but many.

15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body? 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. 19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be?

20 But now indeed there are many members, yet one body. 21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. 23 And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty, 24 but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it, 25 that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. 26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. 28 And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles? 30 Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? 31 But earnestly desire the best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.

Romans 12:

3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. 4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. 6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; 7 or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; 8 he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.