The opening speech was by Bert Waggoner, the national director of Vineyard USA:
The Vineyard is 25 years old, which is typically an institutional point of crisis.
Just like the Israelites after their journey from Egypt, we're standing at the edge of the river -- do we look back or do we enter the promised land?
It is time for us to join the Misseo Dei, the mission of God. What must we do to enter the land? There are three key things:
1) Reaffirm who we are: a movement, but not just a random, aimless movement, we are now a 21c movement, a kingdom of God movement. Our mission includes evangelism and social transformation.
2) Follow faith rather than fear.
3) Hungry after God, but not frightened of intellectual pursuit.
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