[Sam]

from 1992 until 2006 I attended a Vineyard church here in the Cincinnati area.

The "official" doctrine of the AVC (Association of Vineyard Churches) is that a person is saved/born again when he/she accepts Christ and that at that moment has received the Holy Spirit baptism. The AVC acknowledges experiences in the Holy Spirit subsequent to the salvation experience. Those experiences in the Holy Spirit are called empowerings. Some within the AVC call one of those empowerings the Holy Ghost baptism if tongues occur. Others strictly believe that tongues are just one of the gifts and are not part or evidence of any special spiritual experience. Several years ago the founding pastor of the Cincinnati area Vineyare, Steve Sjogren, was teaching on the gifts of the Spirit and he sorta said that tongues was a gift like the others. He also mentioned that some within the Assemblies of God are coming to that conclusion.