What Kind of Church?

The Vine is an independent Christian Church established on the principles found in the New Testament.  Our message is “Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God.”  We have no creed but Christ, no book but the Bible, no law but love.  Jesus alone is Lord and Savior.

We are a church seeking, as much as possible, to imitate the church described in the New Testament.  This is why our baptism is by immersion and why we take Communion every Lord’s Day.

James Garfield, the country's eighteenth president and part of the Restoration Movement, described our beliefs this way:

• We call ourselves Christians. 
• We believe in God the Father. 
• We believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God, and our Savior. We regard the divinity of Christ as the fundamental truth of the Christian system. 
• We believe in the Holy Spirit, both as to his agency in conversion and as indwelling in the heart of the Christian. 
• We accept both the Old Testament and the New Testament Scriptures as the inspired Word of God. 
• We believe in the future punishment of the wicked and the future reward of the righteous. 
• We believe that the deity is a prayer hearing and prayer answering God. 
• We observe the institution of the Lord's Supper on the Lord's Day. To this table we neither invite nor bar; we say it is the Lord's Supper for all the Lord's children. 
• We plead for the union of God's people on the Bible and the Bible alone. 
• The Christ is our only Creed.
• We maintain that the ordinances should be observed as they were in the days of the Apostles.

For more information on Christian churches, churches of Christ and the Restoration Movement, see Leroy Lawson’s article “What Kind of Church Is This?”