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‘Doing the Stuff’: The Vineyard Connection

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From the outside St Jude’s (not the real name) is an insignificant looking church in a sleepy suburb of London. The vicar had attended John Wimber’s MC510 course on church growth strategy at Fuller Seminary in California and brought the ministry back to his dwindling congregation that numbered fewer than 40. The choir master left in protest against the Charismatic choruses introduced, and took the choir with him. In ten years the church had grown to a membership of well over 400. It may have had something to do with the vicar leading the Charismatic faction of his congregation around the parish boundary shouting ‘out Satan out’. More realistically it may reflect the overwhelming attraction of Wimber’s Charismatic package.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Reading, UK

    Stephen Hunt (Lecturer in Sociology) & Tony Walter (Reader in Sociology) (Lecturer in Sociology) &  (Reader in Sociology)

  2. Department of Sociology, University of Reading, UK

    Malcolm Hamilton (Head of Department) (Head of Department)

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Hunt, S. (1997). ‘Doing the Stuff’: The Vineyard Connection. In: Hunt, S., Hamilton, M., Walter, T. (eds) Charismatic Christianity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26024-9_5

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