I grew up in the Vineyard. After being born into and attending the church of which my dad was a pastor (Four Square), I spent ages 4-18 in the Vineyard Christian Fellowship movement.
It is to the Anaheim Vineyard (which was the seed church of the whole movement) that I owe my initial salvation, most of my instruction in doctrine and the practical living out of the Christian life, many of my closest friends, a thousand memories, Bible studies, emotional worship sessions... I could go on. For all this I shall be (literally) eternally grateful.
However Spirit-led her origin in the 1980s, her ancestors have inauspicious beginnings.
The Vineyards spiritual lineage includes Calvary Chapel and Yorba Linda Friends. Calvary Chapel was originally a Four Square church. Yorba Linda Friends is a part of the so-called Quaker movement, or Society of Friends.
The Four Square church I am still learning about and will hopefully send another email regarding their lineage in the future. The Quakers or Society of friends are those spiritual grandparents of whom I am not proud to a descendant.
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