I have had a lot of issues with “some” Vineyards, though
we attended Wimber’s church when it was held at Canyon
High School. The worship was AMAZING! The teaching
was not as fundamental as we liked, so we moved on.
Then came the barking and the laughing and the whatnot.
So many of my friends were swept into this. I could
not reason with them because their experience was so
intensely “sensual” that it “convinced” them more than
“convicted” them that their humiliating behavior was God
ordained.
Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting
place; They have set up their own standards for signs.
—Psalm 74:4—
Got swept up in the Toronto Blessing in ST. Louis at the vineyard there and it began to leave a bitter taste in my mouth lots of umbilical happenings. It became an addiction of conference hopping that luckily got delivered from.
Loved meeting John W in Taipei. Loved his video series of his testimony and the early Vineyard stuff.
I think his humility and loathing churchianity were quite what God liked, a LOT.
And, he sought to find out what God was doing and JOIN GOD in whatever God was doing. Hard model to better.