The community and formation ministry exists to help create space for you to experience life together in community and to serve and resource you as you journey with Jesus as a disciple.
Below are some ways for you to get started. If you have any questions please reach out using the connect section at the bottom.
Community and Formation
Parables of Jesus Sermon Series
In a moment where so many voices compete for our attention, we believe the call for our church is to “double down on Jesus.” Throughout this fall, before and after the Holy Spirit Conference, we will journey through the Kingdom parables of Jesus — stories that reveal what life in the Kingdom of God truly looks like.
What is this series?
We will journey through some of the parables of Jesus, allowing them to give us a window into the kingdom of God.
The series runs from September 13 through November 22, the Sunday before Advent begins.
This series also overlaps with Holy Spirit Conference that runs October 24-26.
What is the ‘why’ of this series?
The parables help us grasp how to live in the kingdom. Even more, several of them also give us glimpses of where the story is heading: God's future breaking backward into the present, so that what's coming is already taking root now.
Our prayer is that this series would not simply increase information but lead to deeper transformation as we become people who are awake to the Kingdom of God and ready for all He desires to do in and through His Church.
We want to offer you a few resources to help you take what God gives you on Sundays into your day-to-day lives.
As a first resources, we have a few events happening during the series:
9/6 - 9/13: 24-7 Global Week of Prayer
10/18: Combined Viña-Westerville Sunday Service
10/23-10/25: Holy Spirit Conference
Another resource for you during this series is the Bible Project Podcast Series on Parables
Parables
Parables are a common tool, even today, for teaching morals through short stories. But is this how Jesus used them?
As a third resources, the discussions at many of our small groups will be focused around exploring the Bible. This is an opportunity to do this in community with others. You can find a list of our small groups here:
Grow in Community
God often uses our relationships in community to transform us. With rare exception, we cannot grow into the people God has created us—and is transforming us—to be without life together with others.
In addition to gathering together for Sunday worship, we offer a number of different types of small group communities throughout the week at Vineyard Columbus. You can use the Small Group Finder below to explore what’s on offer and to connect with leaders of our communities.
Grow in Jesus
There is a beautiful mystery to how we are transformed. First, it’s, ultimately, all grace—God’s Spirit lives in us and works in us. Yet we also participate in practices through which God shapes us. Philippians 2:12-13 captures this mystery: ”Work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.”
At Vineyard Columbus we summarize these practices in five areas that help us intentionally respond to God’s transforming work: worshiping, belonging, serving, giving, and learning.
Below is a Linktree where we share regularly updated, curated resources you can engage as a disciple journeying with Jesus.
You don’t have to do them all! But what might God be inviting you into this year or maybe even just this month?