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Sunday 30 September 2012

ROCK ‘N’ ROLL GAVE US THE VINEYARD Church movement; one wonders if Vineyard has given us Mumford & Sons. The Association of Vineyard Churches, described as a “neocharismatic” evangelical church, was born out of the intersection of Jesus and rock music. John Wimber, the founder and first key Vineyard leader, had Rock ‘n’ Roll roots going back to the band The Paramours, a precursor to The Righteous Brothers (think “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feelin”). Wimber connected with other Jesus people in Southern California in the early 1970s to spark what has become one of the fastest growing church movements in the increasingly secular “Western” nations of Europe and North America. A Deliberately Spiritual Thing

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