- vintage: adj. – of old, recognized, and enduring interest, importance or quality. Vintage: like a fine wine that has aged to great quality and can still be enjoyed today.
Vintage Christianity is about a return to the gospel that Jesus preached, and that the apostles believed and preached, a gospel we like to call The First Gospel. It is about a return to the gospel that once-for-all radically changed the world. It is about being faithful the the text of Holy Scripture, not going beyond it, and not falling short of it. It is about engaging the culture with the gospel of Christ, and following Jesus’ example of love and compassion, grace and truth, worship and mission, life and death, and everything else in between.
We seek to be radically “vintage” in all that we do, rather than being radically “novel” in our approach to ministry. This statement says something about us, but it also says something about the majority (with wonderful exceptions of course) of modern Chrisitanity.
Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints (Jude 1:3 ESV).
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed (Galatians 1:8-9 ESV).
Vintage Christianity seeks to be a part of the resurgence of vibrant, biblical, passionate, God-centered, truth driven Christians who treasure the supremacy of Christ above all things, and who desire to spread that passion to the world. Vintage Christianity seeks to minister to the culture with the good news about Jesus, following in the footsteps of Jesus and his apostles.
Vintage Christianity is a missional approach to church life and ministry, with an emphasis on theological purity, and a deep appreciation for the best of our Christian heritage, the heritage that began with Jesus and his apostles, and is recorded in the Bible.
