The Torah tells us that God especially created man and woman to be a reflection of his image. However, none of us is a good likeness of his character, because we do not live our own lives just for God, but largely for ourselves. The way we view the world around us is our way, not God's way. So we live separated from God. Every area of our life is affected. Despite all our efforts to please God, we can't hide our selfishness and our sin from him. This is not what God desires for us. What is amazing is that God has done something about it.

God wants you to realize that you need him to really live. He has overcome our separation by sending his Son the Messiah to bridge the gap. Jesus died and then rose from the dead to overpower the selfishness and the sin that is in us. It doesn't matter how bad your life is. A Messiah who is still alive today has irresistable power. If you follow Jesus, he will lead you to be the person that God desires you to be. And God will never let you go, no matter what happens. When you die, he will raise you from the dead to live a perfect life forever.

We can be sure of these things because God explained it to us in human words we can understand. These words are recorded in God's book, the Bible, written over a period of 1500 years. The Bible consists of the Torah, the Writings, and the Prophets (together called the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament), and the New Testament, originally written in Greek. Almost all the books of the Bible were written by Jewish believers.

At Rock of Israel, we want to help people mature spiritually and become the people that God intended them to be. Part of spiritual maturity involves understanding the way our minds, our will, and our emotions work, and understanding what God desires for us. The Reformed Worldview is a way of looking at all of life around us through the lens of God's word. This is much better than looking through our own dirty eyeglasses!

The message of the Messiah is simple, but at the same time, the Bible is a deep reservoir of truth. Believers through the ages who love God's word have given us helpful summaries of the Bible's teaching. We would particularly recommend to you three of these summaries: The Apostles Creed (second century), The Westminster Confession of Faith (from 1649), and The Heidelburg Catechism (1563).

At Rock of Israel, we endeavor to depend entirely on the power of our Father God, His Son Jesus, and His Holy Spirit. We follow the teaching of the Bible set forth in both the Old and New Testaments, and the Reformed system of doctrine.