Volume 4, Issue 2, 2013
Legitimization Strategies within the Cultic Milieu
Jane Skjoldli
Pages 245-265
“God is Blowing Everybody’s Mind”: Three Controversies that Helped Shape the Vineyard Movement
The Jesus People movement’s influence on Christian music and charismatic practices was profound. Alongside the interdenominational musical reformation came changes in how the charismata—God’s spiritual gifts to Christians—were performed and celebrated in church services. Embraced at first as bodily manifestations of the Holy Spirit’s presence, controversies arose over time concerning what should count as charismata and how central these practices ought to be in church services. This article explores three such controversies, how they were handled by church leaders and how they would come to shape the Calvary Chapel and Vineyard movements’ denominational identities.