PASSION FOR GOD.
COMPASSION FOR PEOPLE.  PERIOD.
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself." Jesus of Nazareth 

Father’s House Vineyard Church is not for
the super-spiritual.

It is not for muscular Christians who have made John Wayne and not Jesus their hero.

It is not for scholars who would imprison Jesus in ivory towers of exegesis.

It is not for noisy, feel-good folks who manipulate Christianity into a naked appeal to emotion.

It is not for hooded mystics who want magic in their religion.

It is not for Alleluia Christians who live only on the mountaintop and have never visited the valley of desolation.

It is not for the fearless and tearless.

It is not for red-hot zealots who boast with the rich young ruler in the Gospels: "All these commandments I have kept from my youth."

It is not for the complacent, hoisting over their shoulder a tote-bag of honors, diplomas, and good works actually believing they have it made.

It is not for legalists who would rather surrender control of their souls to rules than run the risk of living in union with Jesus.

If anyone is still reading…

Father’s House Vineyard Church is for the bedraggled, beat-up, and burnt-out.

It is for the sorely burdened who are still shifting the heavy suitcase from one hand to the other.

It is for the wobbly and weak-kneed who know they don’t have it together and are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace.

It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.

It is for the poor, weak, sinful men and women with hereditary faults and limited talents.

It is for earthen vessels who shuffle along on feet of clay.

It is for the bent and the bruised who feel that their lives are a grave disappointment to God.

It is for smart people who know they are stupid and honest disciples who admit they are scalawags.

Father’s House Vineyard Church is for anyone who has grown weary and discouraged along the Way.

Much thanks to Brennan Manning and this intriguing introduction to his powerful book on mercy & grace, "The Ragamuffin Gospel"