To love the Lord our God with all our souls, we must honor God with the reverence of our lives (not misusing his name in word or deed) and with the rhythm of our lives (remembering the Lord's Day to keep it holy).

Loving the Lord your God with all your heart means cultivating a deep devotion and commitment to God at the very center of who we are. It means fighting to put God first in all things and refusing to remake him in our own image.

Why is loving the Lord our God the greatest commandment - the greatest thing a human being can do? Because God is the greatest and highest Good: our Creator and our Redeemer. 

We are called to wide reach as we love and witness to our neighbors and the nations.

Our core values that drive our mission:

Real Hope - the struggle is real, but there is hope. 

Deep Connection - the Gospel creates an uncommon community.

Full Engagement - Back Creek Church is us, but it isn't about us.

Wide Reach - we love our neighbors and we love the nations.

In the church, no one is extra - everyone is essential. We need everyone to be fully engaged in the worship, life, and mission of our church. Back Creek Church is us, but it isn't about us. 

Pastor Matt Mantooth shares from Genesis 2, Mark 2 , and Isaiah 58 about the rest God calls us into and learning to delight in it. 

Rev. Darin Stone from Ministry to State shares from Leviticus 19 about loving our neighbors as ourselves. 

The Gospel creates an uncommon community that cultivates deep connection through perceiving the connection that already exists, practicing the connection we long for, and publishing our connection to the world.

The Real Hope of the Gospel brings new life to a person, characterized by a new king of endurance, a new kind of love, a new kind of faith, and a new kind of joy.

Our mission is our destination - where we believe God is calling us to go as a church. Our core values drive us toward that destination: real hope, deep connection, full engagement, wide reach.

When the risen Christ ascended to heaven, he did not leave us with a great CLUB to enjoy with likeminded people, a great COMFORT to magnify our own consumerism and preferences, a great CROWD that gathers for a production every weekend, or a great COALITION by which we might use political power to enforce change on the world.