They adopted their name in 1962 while performing together in the Los Angeles area as part of a five-member group called The Paramours, which featured John Wimber ( who was much later one of the founders of the Vineyard Movement ) on keyboards.

Gulliksen turned over the churches in under his oversight to Wimber, beginning his leadership of the Vineyard movement.

Beginning in 1988, Wimber established relationships with prophetic figures such as Paul Cain, Bob Jones, and Mike Bickle who pastored Kansas City Fellowship, an independent church which would come under the Vineyard banner as Metro Vineyard ( see Kansas City Prophets ).

For a time, these men had considerable influence on Wimber and the Vineyard — according to Jackson, Wimber's son was delivered from drug addiction through a prophetic word from Jones.

However, there were those in the Vineyard who were skeptical, and Wimber himself became disillusioned over the restorationist teaching and failed prophecies of these men.

Around 1991, Wimber began to distance himself from the prophetic movement, leading the Vineyard back to a church-planting direction, while Bickle's church withdrew and dropped the Vineyard label.

The church also has published a 10-point " Vineyard Genetic Code ," taught to a session of senior leadership by John Wimber in 1992, that outlines the 10 areas of ministry considered essential to any Vineyard church.

John Wimber utilized the centered set understanding of membership in his Vineyard Churches.

John Richard Wimber ( February 25, 1934-November 17, 1997 ) was a musician, charismatic pastor and one of the founding leaders of the Vineyard Movement, a neocharismatic Evangelical Christian denomination which began in the USA and has now spread to many countries world-wide.

John Wimber, the founder of the Vineyard movement, taught kingdom theology and emphasised signs and wonders as the coming of the kingdom of God, as well as Gordon Fee and Dallas Willard.

John Wimber and the Vineyard churches are most prominently associated with this label.

In 1982, with fellow Fuller missions professor Peter Wagner, Kraft became an early proponent of the teaching and ministry models of John Wimber, and helped popularize the " Third Wave of the Holy Spirit " which Wimber's Vineyard Movement represented.

It is closely associated with the ministry of John Wimber and the Vineyard Movement.

The following works represent some of those who entered into the dialogue: J. Woodhouse ’ s Signs & Wonders and Evangelicals: A Response to the Teaching of John Wimber, K. L. Sarles ’ An Appraisal of the Signs & Wonders Movement, K. M. Bond ’ s Signs and Wonders: Perspectives on John Wimber's Vineyard and D. H. Shepherd ’ s A Critical Analysis of Power Evangelism as an Evangelistic Methodology of the Signs and Wonders Movement.

* John Wimber, A Brief Sketch of Signs and Wonders through the Church Age ( Placentia, California: Vineyard Christian Fellowship, 1984 ).

* John Wimber, Signs and Wonders and Church Growth ( Placentia, California: Vineyard Ministries International, 1984 ).

* The Roots John Wimber and the Vineyard

He served as the senior pastor of two churches, and he has also served on the pastoral staff at the Vineyard Movement's Christian Fellowship in Anaheim, California ( with John Wimber ) and at the former Metro Christian Fellowship in Kansas City, Missouri ( with Mike Bickle ).

Eventually, Metro Christian Fellowship joined the Association of Vineyard Churches led by John Wimber in 1990 and remained a part of that association of churches until 1996.

Possibly the greatest influence has been the ministry of John Wimber, who visited Holy Trinity Brompton a number of times during the 1980s and 1990s.

The Nine O ' Clock Service was a youth-oriented alternative Christian worship service started, before a 1985 John Wimber Signs and Wonders conference in Sheffield, in 1986 at St Thomas ' Church in Crookes, Sheffield, United Kingdom by a group of Christian musicians and artists.

John Wimber credited Trevor Martin ’ s Kingdom Healing as a significant item in the formation of his own theology.

John Wimber ( then as Johnny Wimber ) brought Bobby Hatfield and Bill Medley together for the band the Paramours in 1962.

In 1977, John Wimber, an evangelical pastor and teacher on church growth, founded a Calvary Chapel in Yorba Linda, California.

This focus on worship and connection with the Holy Spirit is one of the primary reasons ( along with the active nature of spiritual gifts discussed previously ) that John Wimber gave for breaking with the Calvary Chapel movement.

John Richard Wimber was the son of Basil Wimber and Genevieve Estelynn ( Martin ) Wimber.

Some have attributed the formation of the band The Righteous Brothers to Wimber ( then known as Johnny Wimber ) since he was the one who brought Bobby Hatfield and Bill Medley together for the band The Paramours in 1962.

The recent emerging emphasis on signs and wonders began in 1981 when John Wimber delivered a lecture at Fuller Theological Seminary entitled, “ Signs, Wonders and Church Growth .” From 1982 to 1985 Wimber taught the course, “ The Miraculous and Church Growth .” The story of this course that many in the Pentecostal, Charismatic and Neocharismatic traditions would consider historic is told in Wagner ’ s Signs and Wonders Today, published in 1983.

Prior to John Wimber, most healing ministries were tied to their leaders.

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