We are currently meeting at Douglas County High School in Castle Rock, Colorado. Click here for directions from Yahoo! website.

Service Times:

1. Sunday Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m. (10:30 am arrival)
2. Fellowship and snacks, 12:30 p.m.
3. Sunday Afternoon Question/Answer time and family Bible study, 1:30 p.m.

Directions:

Take I-25 to Interstate Exit to Meadows Parkway in Castle Rock. Go East for a few blocks and turn right onto Front Street. Go approximately 2 miles to the high school and turn left onto ‘Huskie’ Blvd. (you are at the school). Enter in the front doors and into the cafeteria where we assemble. Click here for map    

Address:

Douglas County High School 2842 Front Street Castle Rock, Colo.Need more information? Click into our contact us page and call or e-mail.

In the fall of 2000, several families met for a Bible Study in the Parker area. This was to become the nucleus of Reformation Church. The church met for worship for the first time on February 4th, 2001 in the Lutheran High School of the Rockies multi-purpose room in Parker, Colo. Kevin Swanson led the worship at the first service and continued as a ruling elder of the church for about one year. During this time, the church was accountable to the session of Providence Presbyterian Church in Denver. The church quickly grew from an attendance of about 50 to 150. On April 12th, 2002, Kevin Swanson was ordained as teaching elder or pastor of Reformation, Jim Mill was ordained as ruling elder, and the church voted to establish itself as a particular church.

In the late summer of 2002, the church, now made up of families from Colorado Springs, Monument, Divide, Evergreen, Littleton, Elbert, Kiowa, Parker, Castle Rock, Aurora, and Highlands Ranch, chose to move to Castle Rock as a more central location. [directions]

The Pastor

Pastor Kevin Swanson is married to Brenda and they have five children, whom they homeschool in Elbert, Colo. Kevin is the author of several books including The Second Mayflower. He was the pro-life candidate for governor of Colorado in 1994. He has served as Executive Director of Christian Home Educators of Colorado and has never taken a liking to squash.

The Name

The name “Reformation Church” was chosen for two reasons. First, we hold to the doctrines of the first reformation during which the Protestant church broke away from the Roman Catholic Church. The doctrines of Justification by Faith and Salvation by Grace are crucial to the vitality of the Christian faith. But secondly, we believe that the church today is in great need of reformation. We need to re-assert a God-centered faith in the midst of a man-centered age. We hope that this is reflected in our worship, our preaching, and our life.

The first Sunday of every month we have a fellowship meal following our service.

Our Members

The first Sunday of every month we have a fellowship meal following our service.Members of the church are active in a variety of ministries including Focus on the Family, Veritas Christian Academy, Christian Home Educators of Colorado, Training Minds Ministry, the National Christian Forensics & Communication Association and Colorado Right to Life. Recently, a member of the church, Isaiah Hess, took 1st place in the state geography bee, and 6th place in the national geography bee in Washington DC.

Denomination

Since the latter part of the 19th century, liberalism and humanistic thought has virtually routed the modern Christian church. In the midst of this great decline, which has affected the teaching and practice of a great deal of Christianity, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (www.opc.org) was formed in 1936 out of desire to revive a passion and a respect for the authority of God’s Word against all of the compromise that had crept into the church. We stand in the path of the great reformers, the Puritans and pilgrims, and the founders of our nation. At a time of great social and religious decline, it is time to return to the old paths, and stand first and foremost on the Word of God.

Hello! My name is Kevin Swanson, the pastor at Reformation Church of Castle Rock, Colorado. Welcome to our Web site! Below you will find our biblical emphases and our unique perspective on family worship. Our hope is that you will find our church welcoming to you and your family, and that you will find sound biblical teaching at Reformation Church. For service times and directions, click here.

What we believe concerning…

• Seven Basis Emphases
• The Word of God
• Family
• Worship
• Fellowship & Outreach
• Works of Mercy
• Church and Family Statement (downloadable PDF file)

Seven Basic Emphases:

1. Embracing the gospel of sovereign grace in Jesus Christ – Eph. 1:6, 2:8-10
2. Diligently studying the Word of God – Acts 17:11
3. Applying and doing the Word – A genuine, rigorous, practical Christianity – James 1:22
4. Maintaining a sharp vision for the Kingdom – Mt. 6:31, 28:20
5. Cultivating a vibrant love and care for the body – Eph. 4:2
6. Keeping God central in worship both in method and content – Exod. 20:4-6, Matt. 15:9
7. Empowering parents to lead their households to God – Eph. 6:4

The Word of God:

• We endeavor to keep the Word of God pre-eminent in our thinking and our teaching. If we are to reform our thinking and our lives, it can only be by the Word of God. We are dismayed by theological systems constructed over the years that have marginalized the relevancy of the Word of God, and we endeavor in our generation to build up a mature knowledge of and thorough-going application of God’s Word in all of life.
• We endeavor to combat a spirit of mediocrity prevalent in our society, by establishing high standards for ourselves in both our understanding and practice of God’s Word.
• We are a confessional church. That is, we state what we believe in confessional form. Without the truth stated in clear and concise form, the church is easily taken by every wind of doctrine. The teachers of the church subscribe to the Westminster Confession of Faith in its form of doctrine.

Family:

• We believe that God has primarily endowed Christian parents with the responsibility of training their children in the faith (Deut. 6:6-9, 20-22, Deut. 4:9-12, Prov 1:8, 6:20-21, Eph. 6:1,2). Therefore, the church must encourage, equip, and empower parents and especially fathers to perform this God-given mandate. The church must not replace or displace the Christian parents in this task. The function of the church is not to segregate families, but to unify them, respecting the spiritual headship of first the Christian father and then the Christian mother over their home.
• Since God commands Christian parents to teach their children his Word in all aspects of their lives (Deut. 6:6-9), we encourage our member families to provide their children with a Christian education.
• Because our children are members of the convenant community of God, we encourage children to remain with their parents during the worship services. A place for nursing (crying or sleeping) children will be provided during the services.

Worship:

• We believe that we must bring God our very best in worship. Our culture represents a decline in morality and maturity. The music and language of this culture does not necessarily represent the very best. Therefore we do not strive after the lowest and most simple forms of music or expression in worship. We avoid vainly repetitious and overly-simplistic music.
• We believe that we must worship God on his terms. We believe that the highest priority in worship is that it be pleasing to God, even though it might not be comfortable or pleasing to us at all times. This means we will not bring novel elements of worship into his sanctuary such as drama or puppet shows.
• We believe that our worship should be characterized as a two-way communication with our God. God speaks to his people through his word and we respond in confession, praise, and thanksgiving.
• We believe that our worship must center on God and not the worship leader or any other man. Worship should not be used as a vehicle to draw the congregation to the preacher or to the church, but to draw them to God.

Fellowship and Outreach:

• We want this church to be characterized by warm fellowship and vibrant outreach to our community and beyond. We encourage hospitality and our members care for one another when they are going through difficult and trying situations.

Works of Mercy:

• We lament that the church and the family have been marginalized, slowly replaced by the state over the last 150 years. According to the Bible, the care of the poor is first and foremost under the responsibility of the family and private individuals. Nevertheless, the church is also so called. James defines “true religion” as taking care of the fatherless and the widows. Therefore this church takes this responsibility seriously and will ensure the Christian education of the children of widows and orphans in our midst. Special oversite of widows is provided by the diaconate of the church. This church also encourages adoptions for orphans.

Church and Family Statement:

• The Reformation church session has been working on a ‘Church and Family’ statement expressing their views on how the church and family have worked and not worked together in the 20th century. We have attached PDF file for all to read. Please take a moment to download this to your PC, print it out, read it and let us know what you think.

Church-Family Statement

Note: This is a PDF document. To save it on your PC, ‘right-mouse’ click on it anddo a ’save-as’. If you do not have Adobe’s PDF reader,please go to here and download it.

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You may find the information you want by clicking on one of the links to the right. Feel free to call or e-mail if you have any questions that this site does not answer. Blessings to you!
Our Vision
To learn more about the vision of Reformation Church, listen to these important messages given from the pulpit over the last six years. For the complete list of all of Reformation’s recorded messages, click here or go to http://reformationopc.sermonaudio.com/.

Two Kinds of Churches Pragmatism
The 21st Century Reformation of the Church
In the Face of DestructionGetting Emotional
Gender-Specific Piety
The View from the Other Side
Offense of the Cross
When the Foundations are Destroyed