VJN 2017 Main Sessions are here! Re-live “Seeking the Peace of our Cities”
“Lord, have mercy on us, who are sinners.”
VJN 2017 was a powerful and rich time of “ironing sharpening iron”: VJN members from all across the country (and Canada and the UK) gathered at Yakima Vineyard in Washington to dive into conversations on the liturgies of our cities, immigration and refugee reform, the historic treatment of Native Americans and First Nation people, the millennial discontent with evangelicalism, dismantling cultural barriers. We worshipped Christ alone and we learned from some of the most seasoned justice voices within the Vineyard movement.
David Ruis, national director for Vineyard Canada, opened up our time with “The Liturgy of Our Lives, The Liturgy of Our Cities.” David shares how our personal experience of God’s mercy leads us to demonstrate God’s justice, and this creates relationships where it may seem impossible and unjust systems and structures can be healed. David paints a picture of the “Vineyard-activist soul,” as well as the spiritual practices that leaders must cultivate in order to attend first to the leading and in-filling of the Holy Spirit, lest we commit injustices wherever we might want to sow peace.
VJN 2017: Session 1, The Liturgy of Our Lives, The Liturgy of Our Cities
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For the full VJN 2017 program with speaker bios, click here.
Session 1: The Liturgy of Our Lives, The Liturgy of Our Cities, David Ruis
Session 2: Welcoming the Stranger, Rich Nathan
Session 2: Response Panel
Session 3: A Lifelong Journey of Mercy and Justice, Lance Pittluck
Session 3: “The Sages” Panel
Session 4: Dismantling Barriers in Our Churches: Ethnic, Cultural and Socio/Economic, Beth Wood and Panel
Session 5: Unlikely Partnerships Developing Mutual Community Partnerships and Mobilization, TED Talks
Session 5: Panel Discussion
Session 6: “Disrupting the Evangelical Status Quo: The Environment, Politics and Millenials”