Vineyard Bible Training

Vineyard Bible Training at NLC

admin — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:29:30 +0000

Vineyard Bible Training will have a stand at the Vineyard National Leaders’ Conference this month ready for you to ask questions and take information away.

If you are interested in Vineyard Bible Institute, School of Ministry, who we are, how we assist Churches in the continued application of practical teachings or if you have any other questions please do come and see us.

As well as our stand, members of the VBT team will also be hosting Forums and Seminars throughout the week, so we hope to meet with you at some point during the conference.

Vineyard Theology Training Taskforce Website Launches

admin — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:22:19 +0000

Vineyard Churches UK & Ireland are thrilled to be launching our Vineyard Bible Training website.

This website aims to resource, train and equip through position papers, reading recommendations, podcasts, events and training.

At the time of launch there are materials from the VBT Team, Derek Morphew, NT Wright. Recommendations on books by Pete Greig (24/7 Prayer) and Andy Freeman. Introductions to the VBT Team, which includes people from Leicester City Vineyard, Wharfedale Vineyard, Southend Vineyard, Melton Vineyard and Reading Vineyard. Also on the site are training materials, including mp3′s to stream or download, links to institutions who provide theological training, plus there are breakdowns of the courses on offer from the Vineyard Bible Institute, including diplomas and degrees.

The website will be kept up-to-date by the VBT team from across the Vineyard in the UK & Ireland. We hope you find these resources useful as we pursue Christ, his Church and his Cause.

NT Wright, the Kingdom of God and the Need for Social Justice

admin — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:11:27 +0000

Christine Sine writes on her blog that, NT Wright, Bishop of Durham and New Testament theologian is probably one of the best at articulating a theology that the brings together kingdom of God and social justice understanding. I often think that one of the main reasons most of us want to water down this message is because it places great responsibility on us to learn about and take action in the midst of the many injustices that we see in the world. Here is a great article from the Christian Century that expresses much of NT Wright’s challenge. Believing that social justice is an integral part of Christ’s message does not belittle his message of salvation. It is in fact an integral part of it.

NT Wright’s article on this topic says:

But the whole point of the Gospels is that the coming of God’s kingdom on earth as in heaven is precisely not the imposition of an alien and dehumanizing tyranny, but rather the confrontation of alien and dehumanizing tyrannies with the news of a God—the God recognized in Jesus—who is radically different from them all, and whose inbreaking justice aims at rescuing and restoring genuine humanness…..

Yes, Jesus did, as Paul says, die for our sins, but his whole agenda of dealing with sin and all its effects and consequences was never about rescuing individual souls from the world but about saving humans so that they could become part of his project of saving the world. “My kingdom is not from this world,” he said to Pilate; had it been, he would have led an armed resistance movement like other worldly kingdom-prophets. But the kingdom he brought was emphatically for this world, which meant and means that God has arrived on the public stage and is not about to leave it again; he has thus defeated the forces both of tyranny and of chaos—both of shrill modernism and of fluffy postmodernism, if you like—and established in their place a rule of restorative, healing justice….

This topic is worth reading in it’s entirety by clicking here.