Sunday Gathering messages from Central Vineyard Church in Auckland NZ. For more information see www.centralvineyard.org
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Finishing our series, A Body of Many Graces, Dan explores the teaching gift as one of the ways Jesus continues to form and mature His body. Teachers help the Church understand what is true, make sense of complexity, connect Scripture with everyday life, and move from information into faithful practice. Looking at Jesus, the shape of a mature teacher, and examples from across Church history, this message shows how teaching can clarify truth, shape wisdom, deepen discipleship and help the Church stay grounded and discerning. It also considers why the teaching gift needs the rest of the body arou
What does it mean to carry the heart of the Good Shepherd? Continuing our series, A Body of Many Graces, Alisha explores the shepherding gift as participation with Jesus in helping people belong, become whole and grow into maturity. Looking to Jesus as the Good Shepherd, this message explores the grace to notice people, move towards the vulnerable and hurting, cultivate healthy community, protect what matters and patiently help others flourish. Alisha also considers the shadow side of shepherding—when care becomes rescuing, comfort replaces growth, or we carry burdens that belong to Jesus—and
We are all evangelists for the things we love—but what does it mean to carry the good news of Jesus? Continuing our series, A Body of Many Graces, Dan explores the evangelistic gifting as the grace to communicate good news, build bridges and invite people towards Jesus. Looking to Jesus as our model, this message explores an evangelistic life that moves towards outsiders, makes the Kingdom understandable, proclaims and demonstrates the good news, and invites a response. It also considers the maturity needed to hold clarity, hospitality and boldness together, so that evangelism never becomes pr
In this third part of A Body of Many Graces, we do something a little different and Dan sits down with Strahan Coleman to explore the fivefold gift of the prophet as a Zoom interview. Together they unpack what prophetic gifting actually is, how we see it embodied in Jesus, and what a prophetically gifted person tends to notice, ask and bring to the Church. They also explore the shadow side of the prophetic gift, why prophets need the balance of the other fivefold graces, and what healthy prophetic ministry can look like in community. Strahan finishes by offering a prophetic word of encourageme
The Church is not only gathered around Jesus; it is sent with Jesus. Continuing our series, A Body of Many Graces, Dan explores the apostolic gifting as participation in the sentness of Christ—the grace to cross boundaries, pioneer what does not yet exist, establish faithful foundations and form others who can carry the mission forward. Looking to Jesus as the definitive Sent One, this message traces the apostolic movement from the Father sending the Son to the Son sending the Church. It also considers both the strength and shadow of apostolic ministry, calling us to become courageous, visiona
The Church is one body, led by Jesus and filled with many different graces. Beginning our new series, A Body of Many Graces, Dan explores Paul’s vision in Ephesians 4 of a community united around Christ, yet made alive through many distinct contributions. Introducing the fivefold ministries of apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds and teachers, this message asks how each expression of Jesus’ ministry helps equip the whole Church. The goal is not simply to identify our gifting, but to recognise Christ’s grace in one another, grow together in maturity and participate more fully in his missi
Dan is joined by worship leaders Donald and Julia to share the story behind a recent season of collaborative songwriting at Central Vineyard. Together, they explore what it means to be a community of the Spirit who sings new songs of the Spirit—listening to God, putting fresh words of worship on our lips, and growing as a community that worships in Spirit and truth.
This week concludes our series The Gift and the gifts with Dan lightly exploring the idea of witnesses. Jesus said this is what those who receive the Gift would be, and it mimics a wider pattern found around Jesus, where those who have an encounter of the Kingdom then can’t help but tell about it. After a light teaching on this idea, Dan then led space for reflections and stories in Central Vineyard from over the last 10 weeks.
This week at Central Vineyard, Dan continues our series The Gift and the gifts by exploring mercy, the gift that moves us toward pain. Mercy is not just for the naturally empathetic. As it is a gracelet of the Spirit, it is given and grown in us so that the Church may be a body who cares, and that we individually might become more like Jesus: noticing the hurting, moving toward the overlooked, and responding with compassion, kindness, and action. The talk closes with a simple prayer practice: “Spirit, break my heart with what breaks Yours” — inviting us to receive God’s mercy afresh and take o
This week at Central Vineyard, Alisha Wiseman continues our series The Gift and the gifts by exploring encouragement — the gift that puts courage into another. Biblical encouragement is more than positivity or saying something nice. It is the Spirit-empowered gift of coming alongside someone, seeing where God is at work, naming what is true, and inviting them further into the life of Jesus. We apologise for the low audio quality at the end of the talk, we had a technical difficulty.
Before the eigth part of our The Gift and the gifts series, Ella shares a story of recent healing for their little girl, and then Strahan Coleman contributed to our series by speaking on how the gift of prophecy is first and foremost the testimony of Christ, and a word that is to encourage, strengthen and care for the Church.
This week Dan continues our series The Gift and the gifts by exploring one of the most beautiful, hopeful, and complex gifts of the Holy Spirit: healing. Healing is one of the places where hope and disappointment often meet. Many of us carry stories of God’s surprising power breaking in, and many of us also carry stories of waiting, groaning, and unanswered prayer. So why do we still pray for healing? In this talk, Dan explores healing through the Vineyard lens of the Kingdom of God — the now and the not yet — where Jesus’ ministry reveals God’s future wholeness breaking into the present. Ever
This week at Central Vineyard, Dan continues our series The Gift and the gifts as we turn from the Gift of the Holy Spirit to the gifts the Spirit gives. Exploring the New Testament’s teaching on spiritual gifts, Dan frames the gifts of the Spirit as “gracelets” — little manifestations of God’s grace, given for the common good. These gifts are not labels to possess, platforms to build, or performances to admire. They are graces received from God, practised in love, developed through use, and matured in the way of Jesus. From words of revelation, to works of power, to acts of mercy and service,
In this fifth part of our series, and on Pentecost Sunday, guest speakers Mel and Kirk Beyer share on the Pentecost effect then and now, with Mel framing it up with some theoloical thoughts, and then, Kirk sharing a recent story of how it looks in reality.
NOTE: We apologise for the audio quality of this recording, we had a technical difficulty. In this fourth part of our series, and on Ascension Sunday, Alisha Wiseman explores the strange and beautiful tension of life with the Holy Spirit: Jesus is reigning, the Spirit has been given, the Kingdom has come — and yet so much of our lives can still feel unfinished. From Acts 1, we are invited to see that waiting is not passive, empty, or meaningless. It is one of the places where God forms us. We wait with honesty about our need, attentiveness to the Spirit’s presence, and surrendered trust that G
In this week’s message from The Gift and the gifts, Dan traces the big biblical story from Eden to Pentecost to New Creation, asking: how will God dwell and commune with His people again? At Pentecost, the long ache of Scripture begins to be answered. The Holy Spirit is no longer mediated through a certain space, or just a few prophets, priests, kings, or leaders, but poured out on all God’s people as the new Temple People. This Gift restores communion with God for all people, makes the Church a preview of the coming future Kingdom, and invites every one of us to participate in the ministry of
In the second part of our Pentecost series, The Gift and the gifts, Dan explores the Holy Spirit as the Gift who often surprises us and widens the frameworks we thought were fixed. Tracing the story of Peter, the Wimbers (early leaders of the Vineyard movement), and some recent stories from at Easter Camp, this message invites us to see that life with the Spirit is not something we generate through hype or pressure, but someone we receive with open hands. The Spirit is the living presence of Jesus among us — teaching, filling, empowering, and sometimes lovingly expanding the grids we have carr
In this opening message of our new Pentecost season series, The Gift and the gifts, Dan opens the series with Jesus' instruction to the dicsiples to "wait for the gift." Preparing us for the season ahead of Pentecost in the Church calendar, we consider the gift: the Father who promises, the Spirit who is given, and the grace-gifts poured out for the good of others. Pentecost reminds us that the Christian life begins in gift — not achievement, earning, or proving ourselves ready enough — but in the astonishing generosity of God who gives His own Spirit. And because the Spirit is poured out on a
Join us for a special week celebrating baptisms and the stories of those who were baptised.
In the fifth and final part of our Deadly Sins for Lent series, Dan explores simplicity as a counter-practice to greed. Looking at Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 6, this sermon unpacks how greed is more than wanting money or possessions — it is the restless ache for more — and how simplicity becomes a Spirit-formed pathway into contentment, trust, and learning to live with enough in the Kingdom of God.
In this fourth talk of our Lent series, Deadly Sins for Lent, Alisha speaks on generosity as the counter-practice to greed, and how generosity is far better than we can imagine, but it will cost us.
In this third talk of our Lent series, Deadly Sins for Lent, guest speaker Lyndon Reiff shares with us his real life experiences of practicing generosity as a counter-formation to greed, and encourages us to do the same with some helpful wisdom.
In this second talk of our Lent series, Deadly Sins for Lent, Alisha explores greed — not simply as having a lot, but as the subtle, restless pull for more that can quietly shape our hearts. Through Jesus’ words and the story of the rich young ruler, this talk names greed for what it is: a trap, a false promise, and a rival to the life Jesus offers. But this is not a talk about shame. It’s an invitation to freedom. As we begin this Lenten journey, we’re invited to come honestly to Jesus, to loosen our grip on what cannot satisfy, and to discover the deeper abundance of a life shaped by trust,
Join us for Family News: A Sunday of vision, updates and inviations to join Jesus in the restoration of all things. Co-leaders Dan Sheed and Alisha Wiseman share on our mission to join Jesus in the restoration of all things, and significant pieces of how we sense to do this: generation-to-generation life, a micro-enterprise endeavour of creating a consignment store to support our outward initiatives, and our sense to build an intentional pathway for global missions. Also they update us on our continued exploration of buildings and facilities for the future and Josh Kimpton from our board then
Lent 2026 begins with a new long-term journey for Central Vineyard: over the next seven years, we’ll move through the Deadly Sins FOR LENT, one each Lent, as we let Jesus reform what deforms us. In this opening message from Luke 4, we explore Lent as preparation, not punishment — a wilderness season where truth, repentance, fasting and generosity can make us ready for resurrection life. We also begin with a light introduction to the Deadly Sins and highlight greed, naming how the quiet drive for “more” can shrink trust, distort vision, and harden the soul. To counter this, we are invited to pr
