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Trinity |
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The eternal community of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit mutually share their love for one another, compared at times to a divine dance. Trinity is represented by the three figures, intermingling and sharing their love for one another. This society of love shared within God overflows with love, producing not only a creation designed for relationships of love, but a reign or kingdom that continues onward. |
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The Kingdom of God |
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The kingdom of God is His dynamic rule or reign that will be fully realized in the future "new heavens and new earth." Yet, His kingdom does not simply await us in the future. The swirl of the Trinity is designed to look like a vortex, bringing about His future into the present. God's tremendous movements of love in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ have already inaugurated the kingdom and will of God on earth in a decisive way. Like a cosmic ripple effect, these historical events continue to produce currents throughout history by the presence and power of Holy Spirit. Represented by the rings which radiate outward, the kingdom of God steadily emanates from His loving character and purposes for His creation. |
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The Church |
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Our Triune God emanates His kingdom, and the kingdom produces the Church. Loving community generates loving community. The church has a broad and imperfect history, receiving and embodying the life and kingdom of God with manifold emphases and with varying degrees of faithfulness. Within the multi-colored tapestry of the Church, "The Vineyard: A Community of Churches" is but one expression of the kingdom-created community. |
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The Mission |
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As a community of churches, we are called to participate in the character and mission of God. Missional God generates a missional community. As we participate, we remember that this God is Creator God, who is working within His creation until the completion of new creation . . . So we do not become religious, but stay quite earthy, expressed plainly by the earth-tone colors. Our Triune God is on a mission and the direction of that mission is not away from creation, but towards us and all of creation until his kingdom comes and his will is done on earth as in heaven. |
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