River Rock Church

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River Rock Church

• Church Presentation

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Mission Statement

• River Rock Church mission statement
• Our mission is to equip believers to fulfill
  the Great Commission.

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Vision Statement

• River Rock Church Vision Statement
• To equip believers to fulfill the Great
  Commission by New Covenant discipleship so that
  they know who they are, what they possess, and
  what they are called to do by being in Christ
  Jesus.

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River Rock Church Discipleship

• (Act 242 NKJV) And they continued steadfastly
  in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, in the
  breaking of bread, and in prayers.

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Discipleship through Grace and Faith Based
Teaching

• Expository Teaching Book by Book
• Grace and Faith based/Rightly divided
• Verse by Verse teaching in the Epistles
• Chapter by Chapter in the gospels
• Book by Book in the Old Testament- Revealing
  Christ in each book and key life lessons

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Why Expository Teaching?

• 2Ti 316 All Scripture is given by inspiration
  of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for
  reproof, for correction, for instruction in
  righteousness,
• All scripture is profitable and needed for every
  Christian to mature in the Lord
• Avoids becoming unbalanced by over emphasis on
  certain doctrines to the neglect of other
  doctrines.
• Keeps the balance between the revelation of
  privileged positional truths in Christ and the
  practical responsibility to express those truths
  in our everyday life.

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Discipleship Through Fellowship

• Connect Groups
• Once a week members will meet in connect groups
  to fellowship, go over a short recap of the
  previous Sundays message given at River Rock
  Church and explore discussion questions based on
  that weeks sermon.
• Ministry work groups within the church
• Class discipleship- marriage, parenting,
  finances, etc.
• One on one discipleship

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Discipleship through Breaking of Bread

• Communion
• Communion served every Sunday during the worship
  portion of the service.
• Church Meals
• Once a month we will have a church pot luck lunch
  after church- church will provide the meat and
  drinks. The congregation will provide the side
  dishes and desserts.
• Dinners for Eight- Fellowship dinners

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Discipleship through Prayers

• Spiritual Set Up Team
• Prayer team will meet 45 minutes before service
  to pray for the upcoming service.
• Prayer times at the church.
• Contemporary worship- worship is a form of prayer
• We will begin the service with one or two praise
  songs and then one or two announcements and then
  the teaching of the Word will commence.
• After the message from the Word we will have our
  worship service to invite people to encounter God
  based upon the Word they received from God.
• Knowledge of God is the springboard to knowing
  God.
• The Spirit flows on the bedrock of the Word.
  River Rock!

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Flow of Service

• Service time 1000-1130 AM Sundays
• Wednesday night- 700-830- ministers in the
  congregation will be given opportunity to
  minister the Word of God and develop.
• 10 minute Praise- Gathering time
• 45 minutes teaching
• 35 minute worship/altar time. Congregation is
  released if they dont want to come to altar-
  They go quietly.
• Of course the order of the service will be
  subject to the leading of the Holy Spirit.
• Goal is to have service last 1 ½ hours.

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Reason for worship after ministry of the Word

• The Spirit confirms the Word
• The Spirit flows upon and out of the rock of the
  Word.
• Worship will be based upon the revelation of the
  Word received.
• The knowledge of God teaching of the Word leads
  to knowing God heart to heart connection with
  God
• Many times people just get in Gods presence and
  are brought out to hear a message about God. How
  about doing it the other way around?

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River Rock Outreach

• The Hand of Jesus
• The Thumb- The Lost- The thumb touches all the
  other fingers. Focus on winning the lost through
  relationship evangelism, missions and through the
  other four fingers.
• The point finger- Prisoners
• The big finger- The Poor
• The ring finger- Widows and Orphans
• The pinkie- The Sick

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River Rock Church Independent/Pastoral Government

• Legal Board
• Pastor- Rick McFarland, Vice-President,
  Secretary Treasurer
• Pastor- Rev. Rick McFarland
• Staff pastors/elders
• Associate Pastor/Administrator
• Worship Pastor
• Childrens Pastor
• Youth Pastor
• Outreach Pastor
• Finance Director
• Deacons
• Congregation Advisory Board