Since its inception forty-five years ago, Vinzant has never accepted a salary; all contributions are applied to this work. The first project was a best selling book, “The Special Contribution,” which chronicled congregations that had large, one-time contributions.
A lifelong student of church history, Vinzant has traveled to many of the places associated with what some call “The American Restoration Movement,” or “The Stone-Campbell” movement. He prefers to call it the “Church that Jesus established on the Day of Pentecost in Acts 2.”
Impressed by generations in his family who were gospel preachers, Vinzant took a special interest in traveling to and researching the practical points of some of the great men and women in our history over the past 200 years.
In his lessons and presentations, Vinzant details the story of Barton Stone, Thomas and Alexander Campbell, Walter Scott, and many others who, in their quest for unity, began from different points of the religious spectrum but whose goal was to try to return to the unity that Jesus longed for and which he demanded His disciples follow.
Rather than giving a cold academic lecture of boring names, places and events, Vinzant shares pertinent events and makes characters come to life. This is something many will remember for the rest of their life. It is comforting in this day and age in the “changing” church to know that these issues have already been fought over and the Bible prevailed.