A Way to Do Life

For many of us growing up in church, church may have been a place to go once a week or a few times a year.  However, at Rock Bridge we really believe that church is a way to do life as God intended.  When church is not a place but rather a part of your life, then and only then are the benefits and blessings of church fully realized.

This why at Rock Bridge we use the word 'CONNECT' a lot to describe our mission and goal (that's what a bridge does -- it connects).  Life flows through connection.  We connect to Christ through the Cross and through faith.  We connect to the church through involvement and participation. 

One of the major goals of Rock Bridge and the major job of the staff is to help people get involved and to make participation in the "life" of the church easy, purposeful, and rewarding.  The purpose of the church is not to produce church attenders but rather Christ-followers ... and the true mission of the church is beat of Christ's heart.  So when our mission is right we should have no problem challenging people to get involved ... to get connected.  We should hold our staff accountable for enlisting, equipping, and empowering Christ-followers who want to contribute to His cause in a way that fits their passion and personality.  In fact, at Rock Bridge we would love to see 80% of our attendance involved or connected beyond Sunday worship. 

Wouldn't that be amazing to see that many people participating in what God is doing through His church??  What if we all got involved personally and passionately with the mission of the church?  What if that is what we were created to do ... and saved to do  (see Ephesians 2:10)???