Back Creek Church | Charlotte, NC

The content of our worship is regulated by God himself through the Scriptures, and is expressed in we call the “ordinary means of grace” – word, prayer, and sacrament. Worship – public, personal, and household – is saturated by prayer because prayer is a means of God’s grace and connected to promises of God’s presence, provision, and power for his people. 

The content of our worship is regulated by God's Word and it falls into three broad categories we call "the ordinary means of grace": word, prayer, and sacrament. 

God saves sinners and sanctifies saints through his word. 

"Faith comes from hearing and hearing through the Word of Christ." (Romans 10:17)

We have an obligation to worship God. But because of our sin and idolatry, we have no qualification to ascend the hill of the Lord and stand in his holy place. An obligation with no qualification means condemnation. But the good news is the Incarnation - Jesus came, and through his life, death, and resurrection, we are given clean hands and a pure heart - a soul that is not lifted up to idols. We seek the face of the King of Glory. 

God is the center of all true worship. All creation is called to worship the Lord.

Why?

Because God alone is Creator.

Because God alone is Worthy.

Because God alone is Redeemer. 

We can have confidence before God because of the greatness of the Father, the sufficiency of the Son, and the testimony of the Spirit

Our 10-year vision for Back Creek Church is to cultivate spiritual, relational, and missional growth, leading us to plant a new church by 2035. 

We embody our mission of connecting people with the hope of the Gospel by living out four core values: Real Hope, Deep Connection, Full Engagement, Wide Reach

Back Creek Church's mission is connecting people with the hope of the Gospel. 

We know the content of the Gospel? But are we connected with the hope of the Gospel? 

The hope of the Gospel is forgiveness.

The hope of the Gospel is freedom.

The hope of the Gospel is forever.

The hope of the Gospel is forgiveness.

Christ is the Son of God and the ultimate expression of his love, who through his cross is making all things new. 

The story the Bible tells is the one story that makes sense of the world as we experience it. 

Creation explains the world as it should be. (Genesis 1)

Corruption explains what happened to the world. (Genesis 3)

Catastrophe and Confusion explain the world as it is. (Genesis 6-9, 11)

But there is hope for the world to be restored to what it should be! 

Next week we will consider Christ, his Cross, and the Consummation.