Kingdom Theology & Practice

The Theology & Practice of the Kingdom of God

Published on: 04/02/2009

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Berten A. Waggoner

By Berten A Waggoner, National Director, Vineyard USA

Commitment to the theology and practice of the kingdom of God is the first, the most fundamental, the most crucial core value of the Vineyard. The kingdom of God is our pearl of great price (Matthew 13:45, 46). Regardless of the location, size, ethnicity, or cultural context, the one thing that characterizes the message, mission, and experience of a Vineyard church is commitment to the experience and theology of the kingdom of God.

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What Is The Aroma Of Justice?

Published on: 04/02/2009

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Kathy Maskell

Kathy Maskell is a core team member of the Elm City Vineyard, and the U.S. Advocacy Director for Love 146, a non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of child sex slavery and exploitation.

What is the aroma of justice?

Justice is what love looks like in public, and love begins with a cry for help.

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The Kingdom: Healing the Dualism of Personal and Social Ethics

Published on: 04/02/2009

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Derek Morphew

Derek Morphew is a Vineyard writer, theologian and director of Vineyard Bible Institute, an online training school for leaders worldwide. Visit www.vineyardbi.org for more information on Derek's books, and on how to enroll.

John Wimber was known for many things, one of which was the emphasis on the kingdom of God as the coming of God's power in signs and wonders. This approach is now an established paradigm in the Vineyard movements. At a popular level that is often about as far as it goes. What is the theology of these networks? The answer is "the kingdom of God." What is the kingdom of God? The answer is "it is all about signs and wonders and spiritual power encounters." If one digs deeper into Wimber one will find an equal call to what he called "mercy ministry." It was not just about signs and wonders!

The Kingdom Coming, Come or Both?

Published on: 04/02/2009

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Don Williams, Ph.D.

What is the meaning of Jesus' proclamation of the kingdom? Albert Schweitzer advanced the first possibility: the kingdom is coming. In his classic, The Quest of the Historical Jesus, he rightly insists that Jesus' message and ministry must be understood in the context of first century Jewish apocalyptic thought. Based on this presupposition, he proposes that Jesus believed himself to be the Messiah-elect and ministered in the expectation that he would see the final, supernatural arrival of the kingdom in his lifetime.