River City Vineyard - Teachings River City Vineyard Community Church

A special conversation with Bert and Evelyn Waggoner concerning the a center set approach to ministry, values, and much more.

Does death have a sting?

Palm Sunday is the beginning of Passion Week.  What a great opportunity to focus on the humility and self-sacrificing love of Jesus which triumphs over all principalities, powers, and empires.

We live in the Between Times. We still experience the suffering of this present age, "an aeon of suffering," and at the same time "taste the powers of the age to come." We refuse to ignore the reality of human suffering or dismiss that suffering by heartless theologies. We are "those who mourn."

We practice a center-set approach to ministry. We are discerning the values toward which our community is drawn in this season. 

Are we lawyers or prophets? Will we retreat into religious legalism or serve as the prophetic conscience of our culture? Which way does Jesus lead us?