Riverstone Church

Our mission statement outlines the reason for our existence and the goal of our ministry. Riverstone Church exists to advance the gospel by making disciples who make disciples. We believe this is simply another way of stating the biblical mission of the Churchthe Great Commission (Matt 28:18-20; Luke 24:46-48; John 20:21-23, Acts 1:8). The word gos... pel means good news. The Bible teaches that the gospel is the good news about what God has done, in his unmerited grace, through the life, death and resurrection of His Son Jesus Christ, to deliver rebellious and sinful people from His wrath and bring them into eternal life through repentance and faith alone in Christ alone. The gospel is not only the power of God to save us by graceit is also the power of God to change us by grace. The entirety of the Christian life is centered around the gospel and its ongoing implications for our convictions, character and conduct. To say it differently, the gospel can be summarized in these two affirmations: we are great sinners and Christ is a great Savior. When a person trusts in Jesus Christ alone for their salvation, they become a disciple. A disciple is a forgiven follower of Jesus who is growing to become like Him. In the Bible, the words disciple and Christian are synonymousevery Christian is a disciple. God not only commissions us to make disciples, but also tells us how this is to be done. The basic ingredients that go into making disciples are God's Spirit, God's Word, God's People and time. The Holy Spirit uses the Word of God, the gospel, through the ministry of the people of God, the church, over time to bring people to become forgiven followers of Jesus and grow to become like Him. Our aim is that this biblical process of prayerful dependence on the Holy Spirit, the centrality of God's Word. the ministry of all of God's people, and patience over time will permeate the entirety of our ministry as a church and lead to more disciples being made, matured and multiplied. We believe that God the Holy Spirit is the One ...Read More