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Chad Canipe - Poema Podcast

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 07:52:08 PDT

When Chad Canipe was starting Poema he recorded a vision casting podcast. Since Chad was such a beloved member of the Vineyard Central community, I thought it would be appropriate to post it here as well. I was grieved to discover that it was no longer online. Thanks to the good graces of Joe Long (www.eachnotesecure.com), the podcast is back online. You can download it here:
Chad Canipe Poema Podcast 1 (mp3, 7 MB, 15 min)

WWG - Chew on Jesus (John 6:56-69) - Thurman Allen - 8/27/06

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:21:11 PDT

Download:
Chew on Jesus (John 6:56-69) - Thurman Allen - 8/20/06 (mp3, 25:35 min, 25 MB)

WWG - Wisdom - Kevin Rains - 8/20/06

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:15:35 PDT

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Wisdom - Kevin Rains - 8/20/06 (mp3, 19:50 min, 18 MB)

WWG - Holistic - Dave Barr - 7/23/06

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:23:45 PDT

Holistic Faith - Dave Barr - 7/23/06 (mp3, 58 min, 53 MB)

WWG - Hospitality - Kevin Rains - 7/16/06

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:54:11 PDT

Hospitality - Kevin Rains - 7/16/06 (mp3, 35 min, 16 MB)

WWG - Jesus-Centered, Kingdom-Oriented - David Thompson - 7/9/06

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:27:44 PDT

Jesus-Centered, Kingdom-Oriented - David Thompson - 7/9/06 (mp3, 29 min, 14 MB)

WWG - Ancient-Future - Aaron Klinefelter - 7/2/06

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:24:39 PDT

Ancient-Future - Aaron Klinefelter - 7/2/06 (mp3, 11 min, 5.2 MB)

WWG - Creativity - Owen Brock - 6/25/06

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:13:08 PDT

Creativity - Owen Brock - 6/25/06 (mp3, 41 min, 19 MB)

VC Guiding Values WWG 6-18-06

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:58:49 PDT

VC Guiding Values WWG 6-18-06 (mp3, 37 min, 17MB)

VC Guiding Values - WWG 6-11-06.mp3 and slides

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:21:56 PDT

VC Guiding Values WWG 6-11-06.mp3

VC WWG 5-7-06.mp3

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:20:18 PDT

VC WWG 5-7-06.mp3

Vineyard Central Guiding Values Video

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 20:20:43 PDT

by Kevin Rains

VC WWG 3-26-06.mp3

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:12:23 PDT

VC WWG 3-26-06.mp3

VC WWG 3-5-06.mp3

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:11:20 PDT

VC WWG 3-5-06.mp3

VC WWG 1-29-06.mp3

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:10:36 PDT

VC WWG 1-29-06.mp3

VC Weekly Worship Gathering - 1-8-06

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:52:10 PDT

Town Hall Meeting

A Liturgy for Simple Churches

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:17:07 PDT

Here's something I've been working on for VC. It's a Simple Church Eucharist Rite. Taken and adapted from the Book of Common Prayer. It is a liturgy in process. I welcome any feedback, ideas, suggestions, or affirmations. Feel free to use it too, if you find it helpful. We're going to experiment with it here and see how (and if) it helps in forming us to be the People of God. We'll be trying it out at this weekend's VC AllGroup for starters.

Download here - A Liturgy for Simple Churches.pdf (44 kb)

Upcoming Stuff

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 19:59:07 PDT

October 2nd - VC AllGroup @ The Brownhouse, 6:00 PM, Potluck, Worship, Conversation, and more.

November 12-13th - Regional AllGroup - hosted by VBCC in Lexington, times and places tba.

Tipping Point

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Mon, 20 Sep 2004 06:40:43 PDT

Been thinking a bit about Tipping Point:

"little changes can have big effects; when small numbers of people start behaving differently, that behavior can ripple outward until a critical mass or "tipping point" is reached, changing the world. Gladwell's thesis that ideas, products, messages and behaviors "spread just like viruses do" remains a metaphor as he follows the growth of "word-of-mouth epidemics" triggered with the help of three pivotal types." From Publishers Weekly

Well, if you're looking for an emerging example of a coming tipping point..... (i.e. how do you recognize one coming), perhaps this is one:

From Joi Ito's Web: Wikipedia reaches one million articles
Wikipedia has just announced that it has reached one million articles. Congratulations Wikipedians! Wikipedia is in more than 100 languages with 14 currently having over 10,000 articles. It is ranked one of the ten most popular reference sites on the Internet according to Alexa.com (trumping Reuters, the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times). At the current rate of growth, Wikipedia will double in size again by next spring.

I suspect that few "regular" folks, outside of nerdy folks (like me), who spend too much time online, have heard of, or use, Wikipedia. But I wonder if that is about to change.....

What could this mean for simple churches in Cincinnati?????????????????????

Leadership Community 9.16.04

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:05:28 PDT

Eric led worship in song.
Phil 2 Christ's humility unto death; Psalm 46 God as a present help

Samaritan house church: sent a report; growing with 10 adults and 7 kids; financially supporting a missionary to Kazakhstan as well as several things locally...

St. Elizabeth's house church (1757 Mills): in process of recapturing the practice of worship especially worship in song and a Eucharistic liturgy, recently formulated a concrete plan for finances/giving

Tilden house church: in a season of identity shift, experimenting with shared leadership via rotating teams for a month at a time with the agenda being related to core values of worship, fellowship, etc Donna Smith started a house church with the Hordinski's in East Walnut hills.

Identity house church (hosted by Barrows): discussing Jesus call to personal transformation, people coming more as is - group getting more comfortable with one another,

Lincoln house church (Convent hosted): exploring ways to build relationships and serve neighborhood, 3 significant goodbyes recently: Matthias, Kim N, Carrie N

Part and Parcel

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 08:45:25 PDT

The Problem with Sola Scriptura. Ties in with the recent posts and discussions in the comments. Happy thinking.

How does a house church or ministry conect with VC? ...preliminary thoughts...

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 10:23:21 PDT

VC related
There are three foundational questions we're wrestling with in VC right now. aaron has written on 2 of these. Others have contributed in conversations and blog comments. The 3 questions are: 1. What does it mean to be a Christian? 2. What does it mean to be a part of VC? 3. How does a church or ministry join the network of VC?
Obviously these are not three equally important questions but they are important for us in this season.
That third question is one that concerns me now; the one I'm giving my attention and prayer to. Less this become a debate about form or structure and the need ot lack of need therein let me say that I'm approaching this as a pastoral question and one that affects the spiritual health of individuals and the future mission of VC. It affects individuals because unspoken or otherwise unclear expectations leads to disorientation and fragmentation. This i have seen with my own eyes. Calrifying these things will help (not completely resolve but greatly help) orient individuals and groups (house churches, ministries) within VC toward mission. They will be clear on what is offered to them and VC as a whole will know what they can expect from them. (Yes, we do have expectations. No we haven't done a good job of communicating them or following through on them. Yes, there will be greater clarity on these things in the near future.) So, if you were hoping that VC would continue to become more and more boundary-less and fuzzy you will be sorely disappointed. We believe that form and structure are needed if we are to fulfill our God-given mission. We do not believe that it is the only thing or even the most important thing however so please let's not make this an either/or balck/white issue. This is an ever changing, relational, evolving deal. This is where we're at and this our best attempt to move forward toward our collective call. On the other hand, if you were hoping that Kevin and Dave and Owen and Arron and John B were going to go away on a retreat, come up with a new mission statement complete with goals, objectives, flow charts, org charts and a detailed plan: you will also be disappointed. For those who are simply waiting for the "leaders to start leading again!" please 'think again.' We're going to do our part. if you care about the collection of people called VC then you also will have a part. Though not everyone's input will be treated equally. ("What? I thought we were all equals around here?" And we are but.... There's an argument for another day. Let's shelve that one for now.) So I guess all I'm saying is that I'll unintentioanlly be disappointing lots of people in this process. So what's new. I still love you. i hope you love me too.
Now what I really want to say....
What does it mean to be a part of the netwrok of VC churches and ministries? These are the start of some house rules, not legalistically enforced but like a family: rules that provide some clarity of expectation and benefits of being a part of the house.
1. Each church or ministry will have a defined leader or representative as part of the Leadership Community. The LC meets monthly and if the leader or rep can't make it or send an alternate then they should phone ahead to Kevin as well as submit a written report (one paragraph to one page is plenty) updating the other leaders/reps on their groups current joys and challenges. This monthly meeting has been invaluable in the past in helping s to 'rejoice with those who are rejoicing and weep with those who are weeping." It's so easy to extrapolate our individual groups experience on the whole network and assume that everyone is struggling or everyone is doing great based on our limited experience. This provides a way to shoulder one another's burdens and concretely help between churches/ministries.
2. Each leader or rep will meet with a Pastoral Council member regularly. Regularly will be defined by the leader/rep. Meetings can and should be as realxed as a simple meal or coffee together. The important thing is to have some face to face time so the relational construct stays strong. It need not (though might from time to time) involved praying for needs or counselling or formal leadership development. it's just important to maintain and build the relationships through regular contact in real time (ie email is just not good enough on an ongoing basis). It is the leader's responsibility to keep the PC informed of the needs of their house church.
3. Each church or ministry needs to have a written plan (1-2 pages) on how they intend to fulfill our common objective of making disciples as recorded in Matthew 28. ie how does your group intend to make more and better followers of Jesus? if you are a house church how do you intend to engage the 4 practices of Acts 2:42? (apostle's teaching, prayer, Eucharist, fellowship) And finally, how as a group are you expressing mission together? (ie what outside of your own development are you doing?) cf Willard in Renovation of the Heart
4. Defined amount of financial contributions to the network. A good starting point for discussion would be 10-20% of the overall collections of the group but this will be handled on a church by church basis with no set amounts dictated. The point in this is for planning/budget purposes we need some understanding of what we're working with as a network. This is NOT an attempt to re-centralize finances.
5. Leadership team (2-5 people) come to annual Letreat (Leadership Retreat).
That's a start....

Cores and Edges

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 08:22:07 PDT

I was really trying not to post today, really! I've said enough lately. Kevin has really important stuff that you should read - its over here and here. If you care about VC you should read both of his posts (that's not meant to guilt you into it, but to say that I think what he says is extremely important to our journey).

That said, I do have something to post - it ties in with previous posts on the idea of a "Core" within VC. I discovered this book today:

Cores and Edges: How you can shape your church
by: Peter Renner

Paul Fromont talks about it in an article on TheOoze: Belonging and Not Belonging: The creative margins.

This other guy, Jerry Hampton, has this to say about it:
"Cores and Edges - is a guide book for every Christian to take with them as their church is reshaped by either deliberate restructuring or by relentless forces and pressures placed upon it. Whatever your church is becoming it must face the need to deal with its Cores and Edges. A core is that vital shape around which all the rest must hold together. The edges are the interface with the world. The core is the only really important structure a church must have. If it is mushy, or soft, or rotten, or scared, or hard, it will not produce the edge that Jesus showed to the world. The author maintains that a solid core and soft edges is the 'Jesus shape' for you as a Christian, and for your church."

Seems applicable for VC, huh? We've done a good job of having open edges, I think we need to spend a bit (not an inordinate or obsessive amount) of time on our core. What does hold us together (see Chad's post below)? What are the identifying marks of our community of faith?

by the way, you can buy the book from Potter's House Books (though perhaps Bill could hook you up as well).

WinnNotes: Missional Church Forum

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 10:50:28 PDT

Good stuff here (see below). Thanks Winn for the notes. I think what Alan says applies well to VC. Leadership, Theology, Structure - all the stuff that we are dealing with in our life together.

"Leadership is not a person with a plan or vision for the future, a leader is one who forms environments in which the people of God, among whom the Spirit resides, can get in dialogue with others and narratives of Scripture. Alan suggested that theology happen in liminality and in the liminility there is an interface of structure and anti-structure and that both are needed for the other to exist.

It is sometimes apparent that the emergent climate is somewhat anti-structural: undifferentiated with a lack of form or order and position. However, any group that comes together forms structure. [My comment: It may be a panacea to think that there should be a formless church.]

In the panel time Alan suggested that the emerging church was in a somewhat adolescent period and should find a way to grow up."

Re-Posted for your reading pleasure

info@vineyardcentral.com (Vineyard Central) — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 06:15:49 PDT

Just read Chad's blog and thought it should be spread around a bit. The things of which he speaks are important and essential for VC. This is where we start - singular allegiance to Jesus. Not an ideology, not a doctrine, not an ethic, a politic, or even a worldview - but a Person. As we are in relation to that Person all those other things are effected and infected - but we start with Jesus and radiate through life together from this point.

VC is in a funky place. It may seem that we have lost our way (I don't think we have, but it may feel like that at times). It may seem that we've made mistakes (and surely we have and will continue to do so). Leadership is in flux. Worship is being reimagined. Mission is questioned and challenged. Discipleship (Learning) is a struggle and confusing. Lives are in transition. Roles are being shuffled. BUT .... AND YET ... NEVERTHELESS .... our hope is in the Person of Jesus. It is HE who makes sense of our lives - individually and corporately. With Jesus as our starting place these other things may seem funky, but will resolve themselves in time. We claim and proclaim our allegiance to Jesus.

Chad's post reminds us of that.

Capturing Some Late Night Thoughts...
It's late and I should be in bed, but I needed to get a few things off my mind and typed out before I forget them and they're lost forever. Nothing terribly profound, but some things that are worth thinking about.

Coming out of some conflict that I've witnessed recently in the midst of some fellow believers, I began to ask myself the question, "How does a body of believers made up of imperfect people coming from so many different backgrounds and perspectives stay together...unified...of one mind...live in peace?" (Moreover, how does something like that grow and mature and multiply?)

I started to think of the first disciples that Jesus called -- a motley crew, no doubt about it. But what the Lord, I think, was leading me to see was that here was a diverse group of people, made up of salty fishermen, a doubter (Thomas), a turncoat (Judas Iscariot), a tax collector (Matthew), and a political revolutionary (Simon the Zealot), but they somehow got past their differences and stuck together (minus Judas, I guess). And not only did they stick together, God used them mightly, empowering them to spread the Gospel even under intense persecution and spark a spiritual movement that has lasted nearly two millennia.

Amazing when you really think about it, really. Particularly when you look at two of these characters who were definitely like oil and water -- Matthew and Simon the Zealot. You cannot have two more divergent political persuasions. Matthew was in bed with the Roman government, using his position to skim funds from the public who despised him. Simon, especially, would've seen him as a traitor and thief. And Simon was, as his title suggests, a member of the Zealots, a Jewish nationalist party ardently opposed to the Roman rule. Those folks were serious about revolution; overthrowing the government -- and doing it by any means necessary.

So what holds these guys together? What keeps their individual ideologies in check?

I want to suggest that it was Jesus -- a singular allegiance to Jesus.

Jesus had called them. He had changed their lives. And He was now their focus. He was who they were following. Allegiance to Jesus was what that group of misfits was about -- not their pet ideologies. Everything else came second to Jesus as they were learning to seek first His Kingdom and righteousness.

I dare say that we all have our own pet ideologies, ideas and opinions that, given too much emphasis, will inevitably vie for our allegiance over and above Jesus. Our ideologies can too easily become our idols. And when this happens, division within a church is, sadly, just around the corner.

This all just impresses upon me that when we get together as congregations or churches or small group fellowships, that we ought to be focused singularly on Jesus and becoming his apprentices. Let's lay aside our own agendas and seek His agenda for our life together.

Ok, I'm off to bed. Peace.

posted by Chad | 2:31 AM

Thanks Chad. We needed that.