Our two Riverbanks
We have set for ourselves two main objectives as a church, we call them our “Riverbanks.”
Riverbanks help direct a flow of water to its end destination and, more importantly, ensure that the river does not become stagnant,
or, worse still, a swamp.
1. To know Christ
This translates to how we relate to each other, and all that we do in our local church, from Sunday corporate gatherings to prayer meetings, Life groups (adult small groups), 620 Students, Hope Rock Kids or any of our leadership training and equipping courses. We want to know Jesus Christ in an ever deeper, ever growing way!
Matthew 22:37-40 (ESV)
37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
2. To make Him known
Making Christ known guides all that we do in our community and around the world. It’s about how we relate to each other, our families, our neighborhood, city, region, and nation.
It’s about multiplying across the Hill Country region, Austin, Texas and even the world. Our strategy is about ‘going’, not ‘attracting’. We want to plant healthy local churches that are active in their communities for Christ. We want to stay mobile, flexible and relational, which is one reason why we would prefer many venues to meet in rather than one big building.
Matthew 28:18-20 (ESV)
18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Meet our leadership team
JIM & STACY FLORES
Deacons
Dub & Shelly Kruse
Deacons
Clayton & Whitney Dittman
Deacons
JOHN & BARBARA WALTERS
Deacons
Antti & Marika Vessin
Deacons
Chris & Wendy Elder
Deacons
TREY & KELSEY STANTON
Deacons
jeremy & lily seibert
Deacons
Rob & Susie Rinke
Deacons
TRANSLOCAL ACCOUNTABILITY
steve & teri barr
Hope Rock Church is accountable to the NCMI translocal team, whom we partner with. “Translocal” refers to a team that ministers from local churches to other local churches.
Steve and Teri Barr serve on the NCMI translocal team and are our immediate accountability on the team. They are part of OneLife Church in Houston.
Statement of faith
During the 16th century, some 500 years ago, Jesus intervened in the life of the church. The church had moved away from truth and needed correction. Jesus brought that correction in the form of the Reformation.
During the Reformation, there were five areas of emphasis that emerged with great significance. It is from these same five Latin phrases that we get our foundational statement of faith.
Sola Scriptura
Sola Gratia
Sola Fide
Sola Christus
Sola Deo Gloria
We believe that once you have made a decision to follow Christ and have put your faith in him you should be baptised and submerged in water. This is done as a testimony and a statement to show others that you are now a child of God.
Romans 6:1-4 (ESV)
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
We believe that sin and death entered this world through Adam and there is no human being exempt from this law. As such, God being completely righteous, must hold us to account for our sins. There is no escaping it. But, God who loves His creation has created a way out and that way is through the death, burial and resurrection of his Son, Jesus. Christ was the only sinless human to ever live and His righteousness is imputed to those who put their faith in Him. One day when we stand in judgement, we will only have ONE reason that justifies us: Jesus died for us!
We believe that God has not only called us as a church to serve our community in Lakeway / Bee Cave, but to also be a base to work from into the Greater Austin area, the State of Texas, our nation and into the nations of the world, just like the church we see in the New Testament (see the church in Ephesus, Acts 19:1-27; the church in Antioch, Acts 11 – 14).
We do this through partnership, mainly through the trans-local team of New Covenant Ministries International (NCMI).
We also currently enjoy serving with Partners in Hope, R Church in Roatan, Honduras, to minister into the life of the church, and help build facilities and other practical matters for an orphanage.
Hope Rock Church is committed to going and making disciples wherever the Lord leads: next door and to the nations!