Our Mission
The Vine Church exists to glorify God by living out his mission as a community transformed by the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Gospel
The Gospel is the good news that through Christ the power of God’s kingdom has entered history to renew the whole world. This renewing work of Jesus is what saves us from our sin and transforms us into people who live like him. The Vine is a church where the Gospel is not merely a message for people who don’t know Jesus, but also a message for believers that shapes every facet of the church.
At The Vine, our value for Gospel-centered ministry drives us to preach, teach, and sing about the grace of God that can save those who don’t yet believe and empower believers to live in obedience. This Gospel-centered vision also expresses itself as we conclude our weekly community services celebrating the Lord’s Table, remembering Christ’s body that was broken and blood that was shed, proclaiming the Lord’s death until the day of his return.
Community
The Gospel is not just a message to be believed, but a power to be experienced. The gospel shapes a new community as those who were formerly God’s enemies are reconciled to Him and adopted into his family. The Vine is not a place, but a people – a community that is continually being reformed, renewed, and reproduced by the transforming power of the gospel.
At The Vine, our value for community drives us to be a simple church that resists complicated program-driven ministry models. Because of this, our community is expressed in primarily two forms, the community worship service and City Groups. Our City Groups are smaller communities that live out Gospel, Community, and Mission together. City Groups are where the church is the church to one another and the city.
Mission
The Gospel doesn’t merely call us into a relationship with Christ and one another, it also sends us out into the world on mission. The Vine is a church that seeks to both embody and proclaim the Gospel winsomely in the city of Madison. The embodiment of the Gospel will be expressed in our love for the city as we seek to meet its various needs. The proclamation of the Gospel will be expressed through our intentional relationships with people who don’t know Jesus. We will seek to love them and share Christ with them right where they are in our own network of relationships.
At The Vine, our value for mission drives us to develop future leaders for the purpose of releasing them to become tomorrow’s ministers, missionaries, and church planters. Our vision is not only to build one church, but to build a movement of the Gospel expressing itself in the reduplication of both disciples and churches both locally and around the world.
