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 When you grow up with something, it is easy to forget about it and for it to become ‘normal’….
The leadership model taught by Tri Robinson at the Vineyard Boise is one such item that became ‘normal’ in my life. I had stopped thinking about it and just did it as it was engrained into my life and became second nature.
Yet as I traveled around the country and talked to different pastors and leaders, I slowly begun to realize that the way I did things, nay, the leadership structure I caught from Tri was different… and, even more amazing, it was a structure that allowed for the shifts in church life promoted by folks in the emerging and missional church.
Having noticed this difference, and having fairly recently become a senior pastor, I decided to go back and re-read Tri’s book leadership book, “Revolutionary Leadership.” In doing so I realized the main differences in Tri’s leadership structure:
“I realized that the church is truly a living body that wants to mature, but in order to do so it must be in a constant state of change. I learned that healthy church growth requires a structure that will continually facilitate transition. It requires a senior pastor who is willing to continually facilitate transition. It requires a senior pastor who is willing to give up the controlling entrepreneurial spirit and give away authority and responsibility to competent, willing people.”
As you have probably realized, the above principle of creating a church structure to “continually facilitate transition” is a tough one. Yet it is one that I believe can be implanted into a church through an ongoing Synergy Cycle comprising of three main principles:
Continue reading Revolutionary Leadership by Tri Robinson
Four of many Vineyard brothers (Roy Conwell, Tri Robinson, Glenn Schroder and Steve Fish)
Tri recently posted an article about a dream his wife Nancy had about the USA and UK Vineyards.
The crazy thing about it was that as I read it I felt a wave of emotions sweep through my body [...]
I have long been a fan of Tri Robinson’s books – partly because I know Tri personally, and partly because I believe in what he is writing about.
This time is no different.
“Rooted in Good Soil” is an easy-to-read book full of personal stories built around the Parable of the Sower and the [...]
Most of yesterday was spent in workshops…only the ones that I really wanted to go to got lumped together on Thursday. 
Some quick notes on the two workshops I attended yesterday:
1) Families - a fairly decent workshop about joining with families in teaching their kids versus trying to tell parents how to do it or simply doing it for the parents. For example, one church stopped hosting a very successful vacation Bible school program because they noticed that parents simply dropped their kids off and didn’t stay.Instead they started a program teaching and helping parents learn how to read to their young ones.
For me the one thing that came to mind is the possibility of hosting a Love and Logic class in Sweet. This is a class Em and I have been wanting to do ourselves but we could not find a group to do it with – so originally we thought about just buying the books and reading them by ourselves. Now I’m wondering if we – i.e. the PRV family – should not host a community class for all parents… Granted, I don’t even know if anyone besides us want to do it… well, it is worth praying about.
2) Alt. Church – this was slightly more interesting, if not confusing. The crazy thing was as I was listening to the speakers, I kept thinking about how their alt church sounded a lot like my ‘regular’ church…. so much so that after the workshop I asked the main leader, “If this is alt church, what is ‘regular’ church?”
Continue reading Vineyard National Conference Tales: Workshops
 Tri and Nancy Robinson (picture courtesy of trirobinson.org) There is a lot of fear in the world today about the future. People are scared of earthquakes, super volcanoes, political shutdowns, and the apocalyptic Second Coming of Jesus.
Some of this fear is good as it prompts us to prepare both our hearts and our lives. Yet, unchecked fear is a bad thing.
It is to this unchecked fear that I would like to highlight Tri Robinson’s recent article entitled, “Maintaining Hearts of Tranquility in Times of Global Turmoil.”
This article captured my heart on the subject of global turmoil so beautifully I had to share it with you all. 
Here are the five points Tri makes:
1. Simplify your life – “Physically, emotionally and spiritually. Most of our lives have become cluttered with material things, out of control emotions and wrong choices which have not only complicated our lives but caused a form of paralyzing dysfunction.”
2. Be prepared for short term crises– “Having the experience of working in disasters such as Hurricane Katrina it became evident to me that people who took basic steps of preparedness recovered much quicker than those who became dependent on government help. Not only that, but many of those with the mindset to be prepared also became the workforce that served others in the aftermath of the crisis.”
Continue reading Maintaining Hearts of Tranquility in Times of Global Turmoil
Scott McElroy is the author of "Finding the Divine Inspiration"
In an amazing display of timing, Tri Robinson published an article about the arts by Scott McElroy yesterday.
It is amazing because last night I was listening to an old VLI lecture on church history. In this lecture Steve Robbins mentioned how the [...]
A few weeks ago on DeepChurch we discussed Tri Robinson’s papers “Take the Best and Go” about the current state and future of the Vineyard Movement. Previously, we looked at whether or not the Vineyard is still a center-set movement. Today I would like to ask a simple question: what is the “best”?
In a lot of ways this is a loaded question as I’m sure everyone within the Vineyard has their concept of what is the “best.” Tri answers this question in the first of three papers:
“Some saw us as a movement of signs and wonders, some as a prophetic movement, some as a church planting or church growth movement. Still others viewed us as an innovative, evangelistic movement, and in later years a movement of social justice – compassion and mercy. As for me, it’s all Kingdom stuff, and because of it I see it all as being the “best.” In the end, the best is ALL of the Jesus we see in the gospels and as interpreted for the churches by the letters.”
Along these lines, I would like to suggest that the “best” of the Vineyard Movement is nothing less then the ability to live in the tension.
Currently there are many organizations and movements that focus on worship, compassion, signs/wonders, church planting, etc. The unique thing about the Vineyard is that God taught us how to live in the tension of all these movements. Continue reading What is the “Best”?
I had the pleasure of talking to Tri Robinson (senior pastor of the Vineyard Boise) last week and he mentioned that he recently wrote a position paper about the future of the Vineyard Movement. Seeing that this paper is connected to the recent blogsphere conversation – and seeing that Tri has been in the [...]
Every once in a while you come across a book that echos the cry of your heart – in a lot of ways, Tri Robinson's Small Footprint, Big Handprint: How to Live Simply and Love Extravagantly does just that. It puts words to the desire to go beyond the status quo of normal, everyday [...]
Sunday evening we hosted a movie night / discussion at our church about climate change. We started by watching the film “The Great Warming” – a wonderful documentary about the changing weather patterns in the world. Unlike the “Inconvenient Truth”, “The Great Warming” has a positive feel to it – showing that even though [...]
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Who Writes This Mess? My name is Joshua Hopping and I am a Son of the Most High journeying through a foreign land following the Wild Goose (i.e. the Holy Spirit) one step at a time.
As I journey along the Way, I have the privilege of serving as the bi-vocational pastor of the Payette River Vineyard Christian Fellowship. I am also a voracious reader who loves studying church history, theology, and world missions.
This blog, "Requisite Danger", is a record of what God is teaching and showing me as I try to follow Him wherever He leads as well as occasional random thoughts. I pray that you will join me in this journey through online/offline interaction as this life is lived in community.
May His grace and peace be upon you.
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When you grow up with something, it is easy to forget about it and for it to become ‘normal’….
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