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COME, GROW, GO

We want you to find your place at Stony Point Church for wherever you may be on your journey as God is drawing you to know Him better. We have three simple steps for you to find your way into life at the church, and for you as you get seek Jesus Christ and have the opportunity to learn from Him and serve Him: Come, Grow, Go! It was just that pattern that Jesus used with His first followers – from His calling them to “come and see” who He was, to His times when He urged them to grow and “produce much fruit” as they learned to be His disciples, to the day when ultimately He told them after His rising from the dead to go with His good news to all those whom God had waiting for them to hear it.  Together these three stages represent not just a linear process but really a circle as we all discover is that we need to continually come to God to be refreshed by His undeserved love, to grow in the depth of knowing Him, and the opportunity to go to all the people, places and possibilities He has for us.

May you find your place in His grace to you.

COME

The best opportunity for us to come and see the good news of all that God has for us is when we gather together on Sunday mornings. It is in our worship that we are both reminded and surprised that God is so much more powerful, more tender and more generous with us than we could guess. Our hope is that Sunday morning will present you with a weekly opportunity to get a clearer sense of the Gospel of Jesus – clear in the way we describe it in song, story, or in sermon; clear in the ways we see showing us who He is through the Bible; clear in the way we experience God’s rescuing and redefining of our lives through Jesus.

Come join us on Sundays. Discover the generosity of Jesus Christ to you in the Gospel.

GROW

Jesus never seemed to run out of metaphors to describe what His followers would become: a vine burgeoning with branches and grapes; a bright light in the darkest of places; salt which would preserve and flavor to what was decaying or bland; a flock of sheep wandering, stubborn, yet greatly loved and shepherded by God.  In all those pictures, Jesus imagined that His Church would either be itself growing or radically affecting the world around it.  At Stony Point Church we chiefly grow together in groups – groups for those who are looking at what it means to be a follower of Jesus, groups for those who are at the same stages in life and are learning from the Bible to follow God in their circumstances, groups for those who are wanting to grow more deeply in their knowledge of the Bible or theology or what it means to be no longer a slave or an orphan but a child of God. Our church is from the Reformed tradition of Christianity, but we are really made up of people who come from all kinds of backgrounds of religious belief and no religious belief.  Wherever we start, we all of us need to grow in knowing the God of the Bible.

Come grow in the grace of God, learning to follow Jesus and love His people.

GO

Jesus made clear to His first followers that He was offering His rescue not just to them but to the millions through history who would receive His good news through them, generation after generation. ‘Go into all the world,’ He told them, ‘making disciples…’ We believe that work of reaching the world with the good news of Jesus isn’t finished even after almost centuries, nor is it something that is necessarily just needed in far off places.  As soon as you walk out through your front door, we are sure that God is taking you to places and people where you will have an opportunity to tell or show people how good God has been to you. For us the area of Greater Richmond, Virginia is our starting point as at church, or at school, or at work, or in our neighborhoods in gathering of friends or downtown in serving the poor, we have opportunities every day to share the message of Jesus’ rescue, to serve people in his love or to support the work of the wider evangelical Church.  Our desire to go regularly takes a cross-section of our congregation across the globe in teams or as individuals to take part in God’s work of making disciples for Him.

Come go with us into all the places God sends you with the Gospel of His love—to your friends, to Richmond, and to the world.