Our Purpose
We're a simple church - centered on three pillars: Gospel, Community, and Mission. Our church was founded in 2010 and is part of the Acts 29 church planting network.
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 saves us from our sin and transforms us into people who desire to 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.
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 Sunday service by celebrating the Lord's Table, remembering Christ's body that was broken and blood that was shed, and proclaiming the Lord's death until the day of his return.
Community
We affirm our belief that the Gospel is not just a message to be believed, but a power to be experienced in the context of community. Our vision is to be a community of people living on mission together to make disciples through declaration and demonstration. We purpose, therefore, to commit ourselves to our community of faith by:
- Regularly participating in the Sunday gathering, worshiping, and growing through the preaching of God's Word, prayer, singing, and the Lord's Table (Acts 2:42-47).
- Regularly participating in a City Group where we will live out the Gospel, community, and mission in the context of community (Acts 2:42-47).
- Committing to regularly reading God's Word and prayer in our family and personal spheres to grow in the love of God and joyful obedience motivated by the Gospel (Psalm 1:2-3, Ephesians 6:4).
- Contributing cheerfully, sacrificially, and regularly to support the expenses of the church. (Acts 20:35, 2 Corinthians 9:7).
- Contributing our time and talent regularly to serve the church body in ministry (Ephesians 4:11-16; 1 Peter 4:10-11).
Mission
We affirm that the Gospel does not merely call us into a relationship with Christ and one another, but that it also sends us out into the world on mission. We seek to both embody and proclaim the Gospel winsomely in the city of Madison and abroad with strategic partnerships in Ecuador and North Africa.
Our value for mission has driven us to develop leaders and pastors who have planted churches in Fitchburg & East Madison. We believe we are called not only to build one church, but to build a movement of the Gospel that expresses itself in the reproduction of both disciples and churches, locally and globally.
The embodiment of the Gospel is expressed in our love for the people around us as we seek to meet various needs by serving locally. The proclamation of the Gospel is expressed through our intentional relationships with people who don't know Jesus. We seek to love them and share Christ with them right where they are in our own network of relationships.