About
Little Vineyard
Mission:
“Calling our generation to LIFE with Jesus!”
At
the Littleton Vineyard we aim to foster a casual, relaxed,
and friendly atmosphere where all are welcome. We’re
looking to experience the fullness of life God created us
for and to share that life with others. LIFE is a free gift
given to us through Jesus. He came to give us real life
and we grow in this life as we focus on ....
L
... Loving God - Knowing Him and Experiencing His Life
I ... Investing In Community - Giving our
Lives Away
F ... Following Jesus - Being Conformed
to the Image of God's Son
E ... Engaging our World - Loving People
Through Words and Action
Click here to listen
to a message on the heart of what Littleton Vineyard is
about.
Worship
Vineyard
churches are known worldwide for their pursuit of greater
expressions of worship. While worship is certainly not limited
to music, worship music plays an important role. God has
given each generation new songs and new ways to reach for
His heart. At the Vineyard, we sing mostly contemporary
worship songs that allow us to minister to God using words
and melodies that are fresh for today. God longs to connect
with his church in an intimate way, and we believe that
worship is one of the powerful ways that He does.
If
you are not familiar with Vineyard Music, click
here to hear samples or learn more.
What
We Believe
We
believe God created all people to live in close relationship
with Him. Because of God’s gift to us in the form
of His son, Jesus, we can live life free from guilt and
shame and experience the full and real life God intended
for us.
We
believe the Bible is God’s word to us and is the guide
that sets the boundaries of our faith. We believe God is
living and active in the world today and is calling people
to Himself while empowering His followers to be His hands
and feet in the world.
Statement
of Faith:
The Vineyard stands firmly in the center of orthodox Christian
teaching. Out of loyalty to Christ and the gospel we have
come to a number of convictions concerning the clear teaching
of the Bible.
1. We believe in one living and true God, the Creator and
Lord of the heavens and the earth. In the unity of the Godhead
there are three persons, of one substance, equal in power
and eternity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy
Spirit.
2. We believe that Jesus Christ is truly God and truly man,
yet one Messiah, the only mediator between God and man.
There is no other name under heaven by which we must be
saved.
3. We believe that Jesus Christ came down from heaven, was
incarnated by the Holy Spirit and was born of the Virgin
Mary. He lived a sinless life in perfect obedience to the
Father, and was crucified for our sins. He suffered, died,
and was buried, and He rose bodily from the dead on the
third day. As the God-man, Jesus Christ ascended into heaven
and now sits at the right hand of God the Father, interceding
for His people. At His first coming, Jesus inaugurated the
fulfillment of the Kingdom of God.
4. We believe in the Holy Spirit, who came forth from the
Father and Son to convict the world of sin, righteousness,
and judgment, and to regenerate, sanctify and empower for
ministry every believer in Jesus Christ. He is an abiding
Helper, Teacher and Guide. We believe in the present ministry
of the Holy Spirit and in the exercise of all the Biblical
gifts of the Spirit.
5. We believe that we, along with all men and women, are
sinners by nature and choice and were under condemnation.
We are accounted righteous before God only by the merit
of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, through faith in Him
alone, and not by our own works or deserving.
6. We believe that we are ‘born again’ by the
regenerating power of the Holy Spirit. This same Holy Spirit
now lives in me, producing faith, holiness, love and power.
7. We believe in the divine inspiration, truthfulness and
authority of both the Old and New Testament in their entirety,
without error, in all that they affirm, and as the only
infallible rule for faith and practice.
8. We believe that the church is intended by God to be a
worshiping community of believers, observing the ordinances
of Christ, governed by His law, exercising the gifts, privileges
and discipline invested in the church by His Word and His
Holy Spirit, and seeking to extend the Gospel of Jesus Christ
to the ends of the earth.
9. We believe Christ committed the ordinances of water baptism
and Communion to the church. We believe water baptism is
available to all Christian believers following a clear profession
of Christian faith. We believe that Communion is open to
all believers. Through the working of the Holy Spirit, Communion
nourishes my soul. It brings to my remembrance the sacrifice
of Christ for my sins, my communion with Christ & the
church and my obligation to persevere in faith and holiness
to the end of my life.
10. We believe in the personal, visible, appearing of Christ
on earth; in the resurrection of the body; the return of
Christ in the second coming; the final judgment and eternal
blessing of the righteous and the endless suffering of the
wicked.
For
further information see: Vineyard
Churches Statement of Faith
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